You can’t make an argument for self-awareness without addressing the issue of self-awareness. People talk about being self-aware or self-aware speakers, and so that’s a good start. Let’s talk about the words that make a speaker conscious of what they’re saying, what they’re saying isn’t necessarily conscious. People get so wrapped up in what they’re saying that they forget to be self-aware.
When I was in college, I had a professor who would continually ask me what I was studying and what I wasn’t studying. He would continue this pattern with other professors who would do it, as well. What I found interesting was that almost everyone I knew who was self-aware of their own thoughts and actions also used those same words and phrases constantly.
Self-awareness is a very fuzzy concept. Self-awareness can also be the ability to recognize our own thoughts and feelings and the ability to speak them out loud. People with self-awareness can also be very self-aware of their actions. For example, if I were to walk up to you and say, “I’m going to be your manager for a month.” you would most likely say, “Oh, ok, cool.
For most people, that statement would be interpreted as a request. They would be looking for a job, or they would be trying to impress you. For the self-aware, it’s a statement that’s very clear, but it’s still a statement.
This is why when a self-aware person says “Im going to be your manager for a month,” they are actually saying they are looking for a job or trying to make you feel good or even trying to convince you. This is why it’s so important to say the words “I’m going to be your manager” in any situation, but especially in the first sentence.
The self-aware person might, for example, be saying “I am going to be your manager for a month.” This sounds like an automatic statement. However, when you say it like this: “I am going to be your manager for a month, and I’m going to be so awesome that you won’t even know” you are saying that you are going to be a great manager.
This is another common mistake that many beginners make when trying to sell themselves on their own abilities. They think that this sentence, “I am going to be a great manager” is as good as saying, “I am going to be a great manager” and if that sentence doesn’t work for you, then the sentence you are going to be a great manager is going to fail too.
This is a common mistake many people make when trying to sell themselves on their own abilities. They think this sentence, I am going to be a great manager is as good as saying, I am going to be a great manager and if that sentence doesnt work for you, then the sentence you are going to be a great manager is going to fail too.
I think it happens when we want to emphasize that we want to be a great manager. We start thinking, “I am going to be a great manager if I tell someone to do something.” We tend to associate this with a situation where a person has completed a task and is already feeling good about it.
Saying things like, I am going to be a great manager if I just tell someone to do it. or I am going to be a great manager if I just tell someone to do it. doesn’t really work because you don’t want to make the person think, I am going to be a great manager if I just tell them to do it. So, instead you want to make them think about what you are going to be a great manager if you told them to do it.
