Self Development (Knowing Oneself)

Question 1

What’s the difference between the ideal self and the actual self?

Answer 1

Ideal self - is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor or some otherworldly figure.

Actual self - is the one that you actually see. The actual self is who we actually are. It is how we think, how we feel, look, and act.

Question 2

What does self-concept mean?

Answer 2

Self-concept refers to your awareness of yourself.

Question 3

What does personal effectiveness mean?

Answer 3

Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy, and time, to enable you to achieve life goals.

Question 4

What are the four personal resources or personal effectiveness?

Answer 4

1. talent
2. skills
3. energy
4. time

Question 5

What does talent mean?

Answer 5

Talents first are needed to be identified and then developed to be used in a particular subject area (science, literature, sports, politics, etc.)

Question 6

What does experience mean?

Answer 6

Experience includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in the process of cognitive and practical activities.

Question 7

What does knowledge mean?

Answer 7

Knowledge is required for setting goals, defining an action plan to achieve them and risk assessment.

Question 8

What do skills mean?

Answer 8

Skills also determine whether real actions are performed in accordance with the plan.

Question 9

What are the 7 skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of a person who owns them?

Answer 9

1. Determination
2. Self-confidence
3. Persistence
4. Managing stress
5. Problem-solving skills
6. Creativity
7. Generating Ideas

Question 10

Define determination:

Answer 10

It 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 exercise.

Question 11

Define self-confidence:

Answer 11

It appears in the process of personal development, as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions, and their consequences.

Question 12

How to develop self-confidence?

Answer 12

To develop it, you need to learn about yourself and your capabilities, gain a positive attitude, and believe that by performing the right actions and achieving the right goals you will certainly reach success.

Question 13

Define persistence:

Answer 13

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 exercises.

Question 14

Define managing stress:

Answer 14

It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other people. It increases efficiency in the actively changing environment.

Question 15

Where and how does stress form or arise?

Answer 15

Stress arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lack of information creates the risk of negative consequences of your actions.

Question 16

Define problem-solving skills:

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

Define creativity:

Answer 17

It allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use. It can lead to a decrease or an increase of costs, but usually, the speed of action is greatly increased when using creative tools.

Question 18

Define generating new ideas:

Answer 18

It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. In generating new ideas, it allows you to materialize, visualize and scrutinize all your ideas, which in turn contributes to the emergence of new ideas.

Question 19

What is an idea?

Answer 19

Idea is a mental image of an object formed by the human mind, which can be changed before being implemented in the real world.