
Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

You must know what you can do and what you can’t; your powers and limitations, your strengths and vulnerabilities, what’s in your control and what isn’t. You know what you know, and what you don’t know. And you know, moreover, that you have cognitive blind spots—that there are things you don’t know, and you don’t know you don’t know them—what
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking

But what does it mean to know yourself? How does one get to know oneself? What makes a person who he or she is?