WHAT IS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal development - is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities,
consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realize and maximize their potential.

Knowing and Understanding Oneself

Self-reflection is someone reflects on his/her strengths and weaknesses and learns
more about himself or herself.
Self-development is a process where a person understands himself/herself better through
learning new skills or overcoming bad habits?
Social responsibilities is building good relationships with his social environment and the
effects of man’s transgressions to his fellow beings.
Social Development is develops favorable relationships with her peers and family members.

When someone reflects on his/her strengths and weaknesses and learns more about himself or
herself, it is said that the person undergoes a process called?
Self-reflection
What do we call that process where a person understands himself/herself better through
learning new skills or overcoming bad habits?
Self-development
John understands fully the benefits of building good relationships with his social environment
and the effects of man’s transgressions to his fellow beings. It is said that John;
Develops social responsibilities
Krystala, a Grade 11 TVL-Home Economics student, develops favorable relationships with her
peers and family members. In the context of development, she is said to have manifests;
Social Development
Justine finds it difficult to concentrate and stay focused in his studies, loses the thread of
thoughts or conversations, confused because of the lockdown and cannot move freely and visit
his girlfriend in the neighboring city. Justine is said to manifests;
Psychological trouble

Read and analyze the quote below.

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” And
“The cost of not following your heart, is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.”
By: J. Paulsen

“Knowing oneself is the beginning of wisdom”. This renowned quote is often

attributed to Socrates. But what exactly do you benefit when you know and understand
who you are?
When a person has a self-knowledge, he understands his strengths and
weaknesses, his passions and fears, his life’s desires and dreams. This means he is
aware of his eccentricities (peculiarities) and idiosyncrasies (habits), likes and dislikes,
tolerance and limitations. The person knows his purpose in life (Doherty, 2017).

Developing the Whole Person

Hazel Angeles (2016) claimed that man’s emotions shape his personality. He needs to
establish emotional stability to develop his whole person. She also emphasized that man needs
to develop his physical health through eating the right food and regular exercise. At the same
time, he needs to enhance his spiritual relationship and connection with the world around him
through prayers and meditations. Prayers are said to promote compassion, positive relationship
and sense of purpose, honesty, optimism and inner peace. Subsequently, man has to cultivate
his social relationship, interaction with others as social being and psychologically portray
certain image of himself to others. Finally, he needs to manage his professional life and
happiness because these two are closely linked. Man should know how to manage time and
stress

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 The six (6) core elements of developing a whole person?

1.Emotional – identifying, acknowledging, experiencing, and responding to your

feelings, including: knowing specifically what you feel all the time.
2.Physical - is a processor that performs instructions including any successors to or
modifications of the existing part.
3.Spiritual -  involves one's values, beliefs, and purpose, it can be achieved in several
ways both physically and mentally.
4.Social - social awareness and responsibility focuses on interacting with others and the
natural world in respectful and caring ways.
5.Psychological - the central, internal, and consistent part of an individual's personality.
It includes an individual's self concept, basic values, attitudes, and motives; a person's
true self.
6,Professional - often referred to as the real you: what you believe in, what your interests
are, and your attitude towards work.

Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Elements Boys Girls

Growth/ Rapid growth of bones and Rapid growth of bones and muscles
development muscles
Ages 9 to 12
Ages 11 to 14
Changes Oilier skin and some acne Oilier skin and some acne
observed
Increase sweating Increase sweating special
especially underarms underarms

Growth of pubic and

underarm, facial and chest
hair

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Elements Boys Girls

Appreciate hypothetical situation.
Appreciate hypothetical situation.
Growth/ Ability to think about future, evaluate
development Ability to think about future, alternatives, and set personal goals
evaluate alternatives, and set
personal goals

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Elements Boys Girls

Growth/ Establish identity, new cognitive skills, Establish identity, new cognitive
development ability to reflect on who they are and skills, ability to reflect on who they
what makes them unique are and what makes them unique

Different ways of appearing, sounding

and behaving increased social
relationship

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 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Social Early Middle Adolescents Late

Group Adolescents (ages 14-16) Adolescents
(ages 9-13) (ages 17-19)
Peer group tends to be Peer group tends to be series of intimate
same-sex gender-mixed relationships
begin to develop
Strong desire to Less conformity and less
conform to and be tolerance of individual
Peers accepted by a peer differences
group

BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT

Element Observed Changes

Shaped their identities

Tried out their new decision-making skills Developed realistic
Growth/Development assessments of them Gained peer acceptance and respect

Aspects of Personal Development

Emotional Intelligence

The following statements are best describes stresses among

adolescence:
- Enhanced Community Quarantine/General Community Quarantine
- Full academic work such as assignments and reading activities
- Family conflict and financial problems D) All of the above

The following are signs of behavioral changes due to stress among

adolescence:
- seeming nervous or anxious
- withdrawing from friendship groups or activities
- refusing to go to school

Mental stress is a hard to concentrate and losing the thread of thoughts

or conversations as well as making trouble remembering things.

Brain lateralization is a complex and ongoing process by which differing

regions of the brain takes over the functioning of specific behaviors and
cognitive skills.

The best describes of an emotionally intelligent person is:

- a person who understands his own and other people’s emotions and
feelings

The following basic Emotional Quotient skills of an individual are:

- noticing other’s fault and weaknesses

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 - noticing that many people have mental health issues
- noticing and accurately labeling everyday feelings of people.

The statement of IQ and EQ are:

- A high IQ (Intelligent Quotients) can predict top test scores;
- A high EQ (Emotional Quotients) can predict success in social and
emotional situations.

Best describes managing one’s reactions in a given situation:

- is reacting to emotions in a way that is respectful, sober and cool.

Being aware of one’s emotions means:

- helps manage emotions and understands how other people feel.

Brain Lateralization

Brain Lateralization is a complex and ongoing process by which differing

regions of the brain “takeover” the functioning of specific behaviors and
cognitive skills.

Lateralization literally means that certain functions are located (in par or
total) on one side of the brain.

Discover the Cognitive Functions in the Left-Right Brains through the illustration below.

BRAIN LATERALIZATION
LEFT RIGHT

*Analytical thought *Intuitive thought

*Detail oriented perception *Holistic Perception
*Ordered Sequencing *Random Sequencing
*Rational thought *Emotional Thought
*Verbal *Non-Verbal
*Cautious *Adventurous
*Planning *Math/Science *Impulse
*Logic *Creative Writing/Art
*Right Field Vision *Imagination
*Right Side Motor Skills *Left Field Version
*Left Side Motor Skills

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