Do you dare to compare yourselves with the independent model role that I give? If already, enjoy youselves. If yet, hope you can learn something useful from my slide.

1. Presenters:
Duong Thi Huong
Nguyen Thi Anh
Nguyen Thi My Duyen
Nguyen Anh Hung

3. Definition
Freedom to organize your own life

4. Making up your own mind

5. Without needing help

6. Are you an
INDEPENDENT PERSON ?

7. Characteristics
Be independent in the way you:
 THINK
 ACT
 MANAGE THE WORLD

8. A. Think independently

9. 1. Accept yourself
Accept your body, your personality, your opinions, your
choices, your preferences, and your life story

10. 2. Believe in yourself
• If you don't have faith in yourself, you will always second
guess yourself and turn to others for help every time you
have to make a decision. Step away from that.

12. 3. Accept the world
Independent people are those who see the world, with its
good and its bad, and consciously choose to be strong for
themselves and others

13. 4. Stop caring about what
people think
Stop worrying about other people's judgments about your life,
whether they are thinking about your clothes, your choice of
career, or your choice of significant other. These are your
decisions, and not anyone else's.

14. B. Act more independenly

15. 1. Maintain solid friendships
• You don't have to throw away your friends to be
independent. In fact, your independence is
reinforced with good friends

16. 2. Be financially independent
• True independent living relies on financial
freedom. Pay your own bills, drive your own car,
sign a personal check for your rent

17. For students, save money

18. 3. Manage time reasonably
- Develop confidence and self-
esteem
-Well- perform daily tasks
( both at home and at school)

19. 4. Get your own information
Gather many sources
of information before
forming an opinion
about st
- Watch news
- Read books
- Talk with people with
different viewpoints

20. 5. Take responsibility
Complete tasks on time

22. C. Manage the world more
independently

23. 1. Learn to drive
Depending on other people to get around will
make you more likely to stay home or to wait
around for other people to determine your fate

24. 2. Do our own research instead
of asking other for help
Try any ways to do st before asking help
from others.

25. 3. Learn to be handy around the
house
Knowing how to fix
st wrong in your
house,you don’t
have wait for some
services.

26. 4. Cook for yourself

27. 5. Cope with loneliness.
Can decide everything
wisely without
support from others

28. ALSO,
Parental education plays an important role

29. PARENTAL INFLUENCES
POSITIVE
- Are taught to be independent from
an early age.
- Saperate rooms and never sleep with
parents..
- Are made to do things such as:
washing, cleaning, cooking,...on their
own.
-Can voice freely.
- move family after finishing school
 American way
NEGATIVE
-Are over-protected
-Sleep with parents until finishing
primary schools
- Never do housechores, just study
-Can not contribute in family issues
- Are expected to live with their
parents forever.
 VietNamese way

37. Benefits of becoming
independent
1. It boosts your self-confidence and self-esteem
You believe in the knowledge
and capacities you possess to
deal with any challenge.

38. 2. It decreases the burden you place on
family, friends, and society
You can stand on
your own foot without
relying on others

39. 3. It enhances your reputation among friends
and colleagues
view you positively as a contributor to
society rather than a dependent

40. 4. It leads to financial freedom because you
are skilled and capable
allow you to provide for yourself and
prepare for the future

41. 5. It makes you physically capable of caring for
yourself and others

42. 6. It makes you mobile rather than confined
within your community.
You are able to freely act,
move, and operate as
you see fit.

43. Some side-effects of independence
When you’ve been used to
doing things by yourself for
a while, you start to develop
your own habits and
mechanisms for getting
things done. When you’re
suddenly placed in a larger
team, your weaknesses
become immediately
apparent

44. When you’ve been independent so long, you tend to
disrespect to others’ opinions even when you’re wrong in
these cases

45. Stubborn