Know Thyself
Self-improvement is actually just ongoing, iterative self-discovery.
We can’t improve what we don’t understand. And so many of us don’t understand ourselves nearly as well as we think we do. And it’s often during the process of trying to simply find out who we are that we stumble upon the very things that will propel us to incredible personal development.
That’s why reflection is such an important part of the journey of self-improvement. But it also explains why so many people are frustrated by that journey.
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