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Personal development is the conscious pursuit of personal growth through self-awareness, skill improvement, and the realization of aspirations. It contrasts with personality development, which focuses on distinctive attitudes and behaviors. Key aspects include understanding the actual and ideal self, self-concept versus self-esteem, and skills such as determination, self-confidence, and creativity that enhance personal effectiveness.

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Personal development is the conscious pursuit of personal growth through self-awareness, skill improvement, and the realization of aspirations. It contrasts with personality development, which focuses on distinctive attitudes and behaviors. Key aspects include understanding the actual and ideal self, self-concept versus self-esteem, and skills such as determination, self-confidence, and creativity that enhance personal effectiveness.

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Personal Development

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.


Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
Personal Development is a process in
which a person reflects upon themselves,
understand who they are and accept
what they discover about themselves.
Personal Development
It is the conscious pursuit of personal growth by
expanding self-awareness and knowledge and
improving personal skills.

It includes activities that improve self-awareness and


identity, develop talents and potentials, enhance the
quality of life and contribute to the realization of
dreams and aspirations.
Personal Dev’t vs. Personality
Dev’t
• Personal development is the process of realizing
capabilities, unleashing potential, and achieving goals.

• Personality development is actually the development


from the organized pattern of attitudes and behaviors
which makes an individual distinctive.
Self-concept refers to your awareness of yourself.

The actual self and the ideal self are two broad
categories of self-concept.
Actual Self vs. Ideal Self
Actual self is your self-image. It is the one you actually
see. It is built on self-knowledge. Self knowledge is
derived from social interactions that provide insight into
how others react to you.

Ideal self is how we want to be. It could include


components of what your parents have taught us, what
we admire in others, or what our society promotes.
Self-concept vs. Self-esteem
• Self-concept is the individual’s belief about himself/herself, including
the person’s attributes and who and what the self is. It refers to a
broad description of ourselves. It answers the question “Who am I?”

• Self-esteem is your subjective sense of overall personal worth or


value. Similar to self-respect, it describes your level of confidence in
your abilities and attributes. It includes judgments or opinions we
have of ourselves. It answers the question “How do I feel about who I
am?”
Personal effectiveness means making use of all the
personal resources- talents, skills, energy and time, to
enable you to achieve your life goals.

Being self-aware, making the most of your


strengths, learning new skills and behavioural flexibility
are all keys to improving your personal performance.
Skills that increases personal
efficiency:
• Determination
• Self-confidence
• Persistence
• Managing stress
• Problem-solving skills
• Creativity
• Generating ideas
Determination
Allows you to focus only on achieving a
specific goal without being distracted by less
important things or spontaneous desires. It
may be developed with the help of self-
discipline.
Self-confidence
It is manifested in speech, appearance,
dressing, gait, and physical condition. To develop
it, you need to learn your capabilities, gain
positive attitude and believe that by performing
right actions and achieving right goals you will
certainly reach success.
Persistence
It makes you moving forward regardless
of emerging obstacles- problems, laziness,
bad emotional state, etc. It can also be
developed with the help of self-discipline
exercise.
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.
Creativity
It allows you to find ordinary ways to
carry out a specific action that no one has
tried to use. It can lead to a decrease or
increase in costs, but usually the speed of
action is greatly increased when using
creative tools.
Generating ideas
It helps you achieve goals using new,
original, unconventional ideas. An idea is a
mental image of an object formed by the
human mind.

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