I’ve been talking about this for a while. I feel my self-awareness is a bit lacking when I think about it. I don’t know if it is because I am not yet fully aware of what I am doing, or if it is because I am not aware of what I am doing at all.
In a way, self-awareness is the ability to identify what you are doing consciously. Without this, you are able to do all kinds of things that are not really conscious but are still a little bit “self aware”. For instance, when you do something while reading this, I feel like you are conscious of reading this. But you are not conscious of what you are reading. So what you are doing is not fully self aware.
If you think of it like this, self-awareness is the ability to truly identify your own thoughts and actions. You can’t simply say, “I don’t really know what I am doing.” Because what you are saying is that you don’t know what you are doing. What you are really saying is that you don’t know what you are doing.
Self-awareness is the ability to identify your actions and thoughts while reading a book. You can do it while reading this, but you cannot do it while you are reading this.
The other thing that self-awareness can do is identify the emotions and reactions of others. If you dont know yourself, you cant really know the reactions of others.
It’s also necessary, in order to be able to do this, that you know who you are.
The problem is that we are often so blind to our own emotions and reactions that we miss the point entirely. For example, when I was in college a friend of mine told me, one day, that she felt like she could no longer stand the idea of him dating other women because she was terrified he would end up marrying one. I was completely oblivious to this thought until she gave me an example. I tried to read the thought, but I just couldn’t find it.
The first time I ever heard this phrase, I thought it was simply a thought, but now I know it really means that he is just a person who can’t stop thinking about a woman. I mean, really? Is that really the worst thing that can ever happen to you? I think you need to be aware of the fact that you are a person who has this one thought and that you’ll just have to live with it, no matter what.
One of the most common phrases I hear is “people are just people.” It’s something that I have to tell myself often to keep from being overwhelmed with anxiety. I’ve heard this phrase about twenty times today, and I’m sure I’m not alone. But when I first heard it, I thought, “I already know I’m not just a person. I’m a human being too.
This phrase has been around for a long time. In fact, it was used by Aristotle nearly 2,000 years ago. I mean, Im from a long line of people who have used this phrase. Ive heard it a hundred times, and Im pretty sure my grandmother and great-grandmother used it too.
