1. Chapter 4 Self-understanding
Sara AlZamil
Samah BoJbarah
Areej Aslam
Zainab al shaikh nasser

2. Contents: Self Understanding Monitoring Egocentrism
Making a commitment to fair-mindedness
Recognizing mind’s three distinctive Functions
Understanding the special relationship to mind

3. Monitoring The Egocentrism in Your Thought and Life
Egocentrism is a challenge in developing.
What is egocentrism?
Why are we egocentric?
The insight into the nature of own thinking and emotions.
Stereotypical and Simplistic
Thinking
How emotions affect thinking.
How to avoid egocentrism?
Are you egocentric?
How egocentric you are.
Self-understanding

4. Self Understanding
Understand Human mind through evaluating one own self.

5. Making a commitment to Fair Mindedness
The concept of egocentric
Born into certain culture, family and set of believes
People who share same culture and believes with us are correct other people who have different cultures are wrong
People who share same believes assume that they have an insight view of the truth

6. Making a commitment to Fair Mindedness cont.
Our behavior always indicate that we are attracted to people that we share similar values with
We hold same values even if they conflict with ethical manners
How to become a fair mindedly?

7. Mind’s three Distinctive Functions
DO U KNOW?

8. Three basic functions of Human Mind

9. Thinking: Simply means to create meaning
Categorizes the events of life
Makes sense of the world

10. Feeling: Evaluation of the meaning of events in life
Categorizing the positive and Negative
It tells how one feels about the particular event

11. Wanting: Allocates energy to action
It tells how one should react to a specific situation
Whether is it worth taking or not

13. Understanding that you have a special relationship to your mind:

14. John D. Rockefeller:
John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937)
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960)

15. Thinking: Thinking changes the way a person looks at a situation.
Feelings and desires can only change by thinking.
Thinking controls a person’s
emotions and decisions.

17. Thinking: cont.
Every person has his own way of looking at things. Different perspectives.
Different perspective are created by different thoughts and different ways of thinking.
This is why we reactions vary from one to another.

18. Conclusion:
Self-understanding is basically how a person reacts, feels, and thinks.
A person’s wishes, desires, and needs are all linked to his thinking.
Thinking defers from one person to another.
Anything is achievable, if its been thought through.