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The definition of self-awareness

The definition of self-awareness

Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards.

  • If your're highly self-aware, you can objectively evaluate yourself, manage your emotions, align your behavior with your values, and understand correctly how other perceive you.

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Internal self-awareness

Internal self-awareness

Internal self-awareness is how clearly you see your values, passions, and aspirations, and how well those standards fit with your environment and your reactions (which include thoughts, feelings, behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses).

  • Essentially, internal self-awa...

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How to become more self-aware

How to become more self-aware

Ask "what?" instead of "why?"

  • Why questions can leave you more sad or depressed. What questions are more productivend focuses on objectives and future goals, rather than past mistakes.

Spend time with yourself

  • Give y...

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External self-awareness

External self-awareness

is the ability to clearly see how people view you.

  • People who know how others see them are typically more empathic.
  • Leaders who can see how their employees view them are usually more effective, and have stronger relationships with their employees...

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Benefits of self-awareness

Benefits of self-awareness

If you’re still unconvinced that self-awareness is a valuable trait to cultivate, here’s a list of general benefits of being self-aware.

  1. Improve skills by recognizing what you do well and what you need to improve
  2. Raise happiness levels by aligning ...

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  • Self-Awareness: perceive your emotions and stay aware of them as they happen.
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Self-awareness has 2 components

Self-awareness has 2 components

  • Internal self-awareness: the ability to introspect and recognize your authentic self;
  • External self-awareness: the ability to recognize how you fit in with the rest of the world. 

The 2 are independent, meaning you can have one without the other. To be truly, fully self-a...

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