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About Insight Book
Learn how to develop self-awareness and use it to become more fulfilled, confident, and successful.
Most people feel like they know themselves pretty well. But what if you could know yourself just a little bit better—and with this small improvement, get a big payoff…not just in your career, but in your life?
Research shows that self-awareness—knowing who we are and how others see us—is the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. There’s just one problem: most people don’t see themselves quite as clearly as they could.
Fortunately, reveals organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich, self-awareness is a surprisingly developable skill. Integrating hundreds of studies with her own research and work in the Fortune 500 world, she shows us what it really takes to better understand ourselves on the inside—and how to get others to tell us the honest truth about how we come across.
Through stories of people who have made dramatic gains in self-awareness, she offers surprising secrets, techniques and strategies to help you do the same—and how to use this insight to be more fulfilled, confident, and successful in life and in work.
In Insight, you'll learn:
• The 7 types of self-knowledge that self-aware people possess.
• The 2 biggest invisible roadblocks to self-awareness.
• Why approaches like therapy and journaling don't always lead to true insight
• How to stop your confidence-killing habits and learn to love who you are.
• How to benefit from mindfulness without uttering a single mantra.
• Why other people don’t tell you the truth about yourself—and how to find out what they really think.
• How to deepen your insight into your passions, gifts, and the blind spots that could be holding you back.
• How to hear critical feedback without losing your mojo.
• Why the people with the most power can often be the least-self-aware, and how smart leaders avoid this trap.
• The 3 building blocks for self-aware teams.
• How to deal with delusional bosses, clients, and coworkers.
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Self-awareness basics
See Yourself With Clarity
How self-aware are you? How well do you know yourself? Do you know how others perceive you?
There are two kinds of self-awareness: internal – how we perceive ourselves – and external – how others perceive us. To be truly self-aware, we need to gain both an internal and external perspective.
To successfully take others’ perspectives in highly charged situations, we should start by “zooming in” on our perspective first to better understand it.
Next, we should “zoom out” and consider the perspective of the other person.
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Don't Ask Why, Ask What
When coaching others, I’ll often focus a conversation on why the other person wants to change. This isn’t a bad thing per se, but there’s a risk that we don’t get to the ‘actionable’ part of our insights or emotions. We need to ask ourselves about the “what”.
Why questions draw us to our limitations, what questions keep us curious. What can I do? What do you like? These kinds of “what” questions are geared towards personal growth, to seeing our potential.
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Daily Check
A simple but powerful tool is to spend five minutes at the end of every day reflecting on the following questions:
- What went well today?
- What didn’t go well?
- What did I learn and how will I be smarter tomorrow?
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What Is Self-Awareness?
According to Tasha Eurich, as mentioned in her book, "Self-awareness is the will and the skill to understand yourself and how others see you."
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Self-awareness is the will and the skill to understand yourself and how others see you.
TASHA EURICH
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7 Types Of Insi
To develop self-awareness you need to understand the values that guide you, passions you love that drive you, aspirations (what you want to experience and achieve), fit (the environment you need to be happy and engaged), patterns (consistent ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving), reactions (thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that reveal your capabilities), and impact (the effect you have on others).
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