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Your ideal self is the self that you aspire to be.

 It is the one that you hope will possess


characteristics like that of a mentor or some
other worldly figure.
Your actual self, however, is the one that you
see.
 It is the self that has characteristics that you
were nurtured or in some cases, born to
have.
Self concept refers to your awareness of yourself. It is
the construct that negotiates these two selves.
• In other words, it connotes first the identification of
the ideal self as separate from others and second is
that it encompasses all the behaviors evaluated in the
actual self that you engage in to reach the ideal self.
• For Socrates, the most important thing to pursue was
self -knowledge and admitting one’s ignorance is the
beginning of true knowledge.
For Plato, one of Socrates’ students, the
beginning of knowledge is self- knowledge
The ancient Hindu writings Upanishads
confirmed “Enquiry into the truth of the “Self” is
knowledge”.
The Persian poet Rumi ruminated “Who am I in
the midst of all this thought traffic?”
and The American poet Walt Whitman
celebrated his “Self” as a “simple and separate
person.”
The actual self is built on self-knowledge.
Self-knowledge is derived from social interactions
that provide insight into how others react to you.
The actual self is who we are.
It is how we think, how we feel, look, and act.
The actual self can be seen by others but because
we have no way of truly knowing how others view
us,
the actual self is our self-image.
The ideal self, on the other hand, is how we want
to be.
It is an idealized image that we have developed
over time based on what we have learned and
experienced.
The ideal self could include components of what
our parents have taught us, what we admire in
others, what our society promotes, and what we
think best interests us.
“Self” is defined as the cognitive and affective
representation of one’s identity,
it is then defined in terms of human
characteristics such as behavior and thought
Personal Effectiveness
 making use of all the personal resources-talents,
skills, energy, and time to enable you to achieve
goals.
Experience includes knowledge and skills that we
acquire in the process of cognitive and practical
activities.
Knowledge is required for setting goals and
defining an action plan to achieve them and risk
assessment.
Skills also determine whether real actions are
performed in accordance with the plan.
Here are some skills that will greatly increases the efficiency of any
person who owns them:
1.Determination. It allows you to focus only in achieving a specific
goal without being distracted by less important things or
spontaneous desires. It may be developed with the help of self-
discipline exercise.
2. Self-Confidence. It appears in the process of personal development
as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their
consequences. It is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait,
and physical condition.
To develop it, you need to learn about yourself and your capabilities,
gain positive attitude and believe that by performing right actions
and achieving right goals you will certainly reach success.
3. Persistence. It makes you keep moving forward regardless of
emerging obstacles problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It
reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles. It can also be developed
with the help of self-discipline exercise.
4. Managing Stress. It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from
the environment and other people. Stress arises from the uncertainty in
an unknown situation when a lack of information creates the risk of
negative consequences of your actions. It increases efficiency. In the
actively changing environment.
5. Problem-solving skills. They help cope with the problems
encountered with a lack of experience. It increases efficiency by
adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtaining a new
experience.
6. Creativity. It allows to find extraordinary ways to
carry out a specific action that no one has tried to
use. It can lead to decrease or an increase of costs.
But usually, the speed of action is greatly increased
when using creative tools.
7. Generating ideas. It helps you achieve goals
using new, original, unconventional ideas. For
generating idea, you can use a method of mental
maps which allows you to materialize, visualize and
scrutinize all your ideas, which in turn contributes

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