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The self-awareness onion

There are three layers to being self-aware:

  1. Understanding the emotion
  2. Understanding why we feel that way
  3. What are my values that are making me feel this way? What do I consider to be a success or a failure?

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Our values determine our problems, and our problems determine our lives.

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Choose what deserves your time, attention and efforts

Choose what deserves your time, attention and efforts

Have less things to worry about, and instead, find something meaningful to utilise your time

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Listen to your emotions before acting on them

Emotions are teachers. While negative emotions do indicate something's not right, and something needs to be changed, positive emotions are rewards for doing something good and right

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Be in love with the process, and not the result

Be in love with the process, and not the result

Life is a path full of struggles. Struggles are inevitable. One needs to be in love with the process, with the fight, and not with the result and victory.

People who are great at something become great by, first, humbly accepting that they're not already great. Then, they work hard. That's...

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Certainty is the enemy of growth

Certainty is the enemy of growth

Learning is not the process of going from wrong to right, but rather, from wrong to slightly less wrong.

Accepting inherent imperfections in our values is necessary for growth. We must learn to doubt - doubt our beliefs, our feelings and be uncertain of what the future holds for us.

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Happiness comes from solving problems, and therefore, it's a form of action, and not a state of being.

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Ignoring clutter and choosing selectively is the name of the game. Everyone has problems, a lot of them. Using harsh truths in a simplistic way, the author provides simple but difficult to implement hacks to living a better life. Also, this would be a preview to "The Courage to be Disliked" in my opinion!

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The Self-Awareness Onion

The Self-Awareness Onion

Self-awareness is like an onion, with many layers that can be peeled back to reveal deeper insights about us:

  1. The outermost layer is our public self. This is the self that we present to the world, and it is crafted to project a certain image. 
  2. Our private self,...

The Self-Awareness Onion

The Self-Awareness Onion

“Self-awareness is like an onion. There are multiple layers to it, and the more you peel them back, the more likely you’re going to start crying.” - Mark Manson

Self Awareness

Self Awareness is our ability to observe and accurately identify our thoughts, feelings and impulses, and determine whether they are grounded in reality or not. 

Benefits-

  1. Aids self-control, creativity, pride, and self-esteem.
  2. Predicts self-development, a...

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