Personal Development Lesson 1 & 2

Personal Development - Lesson 1: Knowing and Understanding Oneself

• Ideal Self: The self you aspire to be, embodying characteristics of a mentor or role model.

• Actual Self: Your perceived self, encompassing your physical appearance, thoughts, feelings, and actions. It's nurtured/inherent.

• Self-Concept: Your awareness of yourself; it's the construct that balances your ideal and actual self.

Personal Development - Lesson 2: Knowing and Understanding Oneself During Middle and Late Adolescence - The Power Triad

• The Power Triad: Thoughts, feelings, and actions are interconnected in a cyclical process. Situations provoke thoughts, these thoughts trigger feelings, which cause actions impacting the situation.

• Thoughts: Internal judgments and predictions about a situation or event. These can be helpful or unhelpful.

• Feelings: Emotional states, described using a single word (e.g., nervous, scared, excited). Mindfulness and relaxation techniques can help regulate them.

• Behaviors: Observable actions (both internal and external). Behaviors can be impacted by thoughts and feelings.

Personal Development - Lesson 2: Knowing and Understanding Oneself During Middle and Late Adolescence - Additional Information

• Ancient Wisdom: Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato emphasized self-knowledge as the beginning of wisdom.
• Upanishads: Ancient Hindu texts considered self-enquiry to be knowledge.
• Modern perspectives: Rumi and Whitman also explored the concept of self, understanding it is a subject that requires constant self-reflection.

Personal Development - Lesson 3: Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence

• Human Development: A continuous process of physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional changes occurring across the lifespan.
• Developmental stages (Summary): Prenatal, Infancy, Early Childhood, Late Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood, Middle Age, and Old Age are distinct stages with defining characteristics and tasks. The stages are not only significant in themselves, but equally crucial to human development.

Havighurst's Developmental Tasks Theory

• Developmental Tasks: Tasks typically encountered in a given culture that lead to satisfaction and community approval. Successfully completing them provides a solid foundation for future development.

• Bio-psychosocial Model: Havighurst's theory emphasizes the balance between biology, psychology, and sociology in shaping developmental tasks.

• Stages: The theory outlines specific tasks for various life stages (e.g., infancy, adolescent, middle adulthood)