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3. What Are Your Blind Spots?
The important thing is just that we’re self-aware about our weaknesses. Otherwise, we become enslaved to our mind’s faulty mechanisms. Our minds are flawed in many ways-
- Our ability to predict our thoughts and feelings in the future is poor.
- We constantly overestimate ourselves.
- Contradictory evidence can often make us surer of our position rather than inspire us to question it.
- Our attention naturally only focuses on things that already cohere to our pre-existing beliefs.
- Most of us, when given the opportunity, will tell small lies to improve our results.
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6. The Goal of Self-Awareness Is Self-Acceptance
- Self-awareness is wasted if it does not result in self-acceptance. If great self-awareness is coupled with self-judgment, then you’re merely becoming more aware of all the ways you deserve to be judged.
- Empathy can only occur in proportion to our own self-acceptance....
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1. What Are You Doing?
- We avoid pain through distraction. We transport our minds to some other time or place or world where it can be safe and insulated from the pain of day-to-day life.
- Now, there’s nothing wrong with distraction. We all need some sort of diversion to keep us sane and happy. The key is th...
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2. What Are You Feeling?
- What people often find is that the more they remove themselves from distraction, the more they are forced to actually deal with a lot of the emotions that they’ve been avoiding for a long time.
- It takes time to become comfortable with all of your emotions.
- BUT, emotions can ...
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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.
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- Aids self-control, creativity, pride, and self-esteem.
- Predicts self-development, a...
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5. How To Increase Your Self-Awareness
- Practice Mindfulness- Mindfulness is simply the practice of observing what is going on in your mind, body, and environment with focus, clarity, and, importantly, acceptance of what is happening.
- Write things down- The simple act of organizing your t...
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4. Ways To Overcome Blind Spots
Freeing ourselves from the twisted confines of our mind comes down to a few things:
- Hold Weaker Opinions- Recognize that you can be wrong.
- Take yourself less seriously- Many of your actions are reactions to meaningless emotions.
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