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, Table of Content
Introduction
Chapter 1: Personality Development - An Overview
• What is Personality?
• What is ‘Personality Development’?
• Why Personality Development is Important?
• Stages of Personality Development
Chapter 2: Transform Yourself into a Better Version
• What Is Your Better Version Of Yourself?
• Where Do We Find Our Best Selves?
• How to Change?
• Things to do to become the Better Version of yourself
Chapter 3: Improve Your Body Language
• What Is Body Language?
• Ways to Improve Body Language
• How Positive Body Language will improve your Life?
• How to Read Negative Body Language?
Chapter 4: Boost-Up Your Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem and Motivation
• What is Self-Confidence?
• What is the difference between Arrogance and Self-Confidence?
• Tips to Boost Your Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
• Powerful Self-Motivation Techniques
Chapter 5: Best Tips to Overcome Procrastination
• What is Procrastination?
• The psychology behind procrastination
• Tips to Overcome Procrastination
Chapter 6: The Power of Positive Thinking
• What is “Positive Thinking’?
• Identifying Negative Thinking
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,• Benefits of Positive Thinking
• How to Increase Positive Thinking in Your Life?
Chapter 7: Improve your Workplace Wellness
• What is Workplace Wellness?
• Benefits of Workplace Wellness
• Tips to Improve Workplace Wellness
Chapter 8: Enhance Your Soft Skills
• What are Soft Skills?
• Why is it Important to Develop Soft Skills?
• What are the Key Soft Skills?
• Tips to Improve Your Soft Skills
Chapter 9: Learn and Practice the Art of Work-Life Balance
• What is Work-Life Balance?
• Root Causes of Work-Life Imbalance
• Ways to Improve Your Work-Life Balance
• Benefits of work-life balance
Chapter 10: How to Deal with Failures?
• What is the Failure?
• Why failure is so important in life?
• How do you overcome failure?
• How to handle failure at work?
Chapter 11: How to Manage and Overcome Your Fears?
• What is ‘Fear’?
• The effects of Fear on the Brain
• Biggest Fears of Entrepreneurs
• Tips to Manage and Overcome Fears
Chapter 12: Best Ways to Deal with Difficult People
• Difficult People - Who they are?
• Types of Difficult People
• Seven tools for expertly dealing with difficult people
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,• Tips to Deal with Difficult People
Chapter 13: Stress and Energy Management
• What is stress?
• Tips for Stress Management
• Personal Energy - What it is?
• Ways to Boost and Manage Your Personal energy
Chapter 14: How to Have a Productive Day?
• What is the meaning of 'Productive Day'?
• Advantages of Having a Productive Day
• How To Have The Most Productive Day, Every Day?
Chapter 15: Words of Expert Advice
• Words of Expert Advice on Personality Development
Conclusion
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, Introduction
An individual’s personality is the combination of traits and patterns that influence their
behavior, thought, motivation, and emotion.
The development of one’s personality, done in the right manner, is a challenging and
rewarding task for every individual, particularly for the energetic youth who can gain
much from it.
It is challenging because it demands hard, methodical labor, perseverance, and careful
attention. And it is rewarding since no effort in this direction goes in vain. In fact, every
effort brings success and satisfaction proportionate to the attempt. Moreover, it is every
person’s duty to work towards it, since personality development is necessary for success
in any field.
If your actions are making you feel helpless, ashamed and guilty of your behavior which
spurts the worse situation, then you seriously need to change your personality. You need
to be in control of your actions and emotions and act accordingly.
This book contains all the guidance that you need or will ever need to know in order to
develop your personality. This book is exclusively designed to serve as a textbook that
addresses the requirements of persons of any age group – students, employees,
entrepreneurs of any discipline who are on the threshold of starting their careers. The
book would prove equally beneficial to young managers who have already had a taste of
corporate life.
The book aims to provide crucial insights into various facets of developing one's
personality, as well as improve written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
Full attention is paid to specific needs such as body language, time and stress
management, overcoming failures and fears etc.
By providing a rich array of tips, techniques, and carefully developed routines, the book
attempts to provide the reader with hands-on experience to cope with the demands of
the world of business.
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,Personality Development Wisdom – Ruud Hanou - Uitblinker
,Every individual has his own characteristic way of behaving, responding to emotions,
perceiving things and looking at the world. No two individuals are similar.
You might like going out for parties but your friend might prefer staying back at home
reading his/her favorite book. It is really not necessary that if you like partying around,
your friend will also like the same. Here comes the role of personality.
1.1 What is Personality?
Personality has been derived from the Latin word “persona” which means “mask” used
by the actors to change their appearance. It is the combination of individual thoughts,
characteristics, behaviors, attitude, idea, and habits.
A brief definition would be that personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. In addition to this,
personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout
life.
Personality is the product of social interaction in group life. In society, every person has
different traits such as skin, color, height, and weight. They have different types of
personalities because individuals are not alike. It refers to the habits; attitudes as well as
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,physical traits of a person which are not the same but have varied from group to group
and society to society.
Everyone has a personality, which may be good or bad, impressive or unimpressive. It
develops during the process of socialization in a culture of a specific group or society.
One cannot determine it of an individual exactly because it varies from culture to culture
and time to time. For example, a killer is considered criminal in peacetime and a hero in
war.
The feeling and actions of an individual during interaction molds the personality. It is
the sum of total behaviors of the individual, interests, mentality, and intelligence. It is
the sum of physical and mental abilities and capabilities.
Explanations for personality can focus on a variety of influences, ranging from genetic
explanations for personality traits to the role of the environment and experience in
shaping an individual's personality.
Environmental factors that can play a role in the development and expression of
personality include such things as parenting and culture. How children are raised can
depend on the individual personalities and parenting styles of caregivers as well as the
norms and expectations of different cultures.
1.2 What is ‘Personality Development’?
Personality development means developing a personality cult so as to create a strong
positive impression about you. Or Personality development is the development of the
organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a person distinctive.
Personality development occurs through the ongoing interaction of temperament
character, and environment. Personality constitutes of various elements like
intelligence, physique, temperament, patience etc. All these elements lead to a good
personality.
In the field of management, personality plays a key role in career building and success.
The personality development has become a vital constituent of a successful person.
People undergo a personality development program in order to improve their personal
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, skills and thereby enhancing their personality. Personality is somewhere eternal and it is
mainly dependent on the atmosphere in which a human being grows up.
Personality development is essential in guiding one to reach one’s goal. It involves
emotional control and balance. Personality development entails coordination,
cooperation, understanding, and right communication. To possess a charismatic
personality one needs high emotional intelligence.
For developing our personality we need well-nourished thoughts that would lead us
from immaturity to maturity from the state of naivety to a state of the knowledgeable
and alert individual.
Everyone has something great in them. Someone plays the piano well, someone is a
great cook or someone is brilliant in organizing and managing teams. These are our
skills but they are used for a certain period of a day. However, the life skills we are
talking about are used 24×7 in our life to make it better for ourselves and for others as
well. Hence the question what is personality development can be answered in several
manners since there are several ways to explain it.
At an individual level, personality development can be understood to include:
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