high self awareness is a burden when you’re using it to find things in yourself to criticize & repress
high self awareness is a gift when you’re using to find things in yourself to love & amplify
high self awareness is a burden when you’re using it to find things in yourself to criticize & repress high self awareness is a gift when you’re using to find things in yourself to love & amplify
when you’ve got a strong inner critic, you’re like an animal caught in a trap — but you’re both the animal and the trap
Self-awareness means understanding your own feelings enough to recognize what bothers you.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes maybe a lifetime. To take responsibility of one’s actions, good and bad, is something else. After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
Shannon Lee • Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Self-belief must be balanced with self-awareness. I used to hate criticism of any sort and actively avoided it. Now I try to always listen to it with the assumption that it’s true, and then decide if I want to act on it or not. Truth-seeking is hard and often painful, but it is what separates self-belief from self-delusion.
blog.samaltman.com • How to Be Successful
your mind has a tendency to dwell on the aspects of you that need improvement, fuelled by established patterns of subconscious self-scrutiny in the name of self-improvement
to counteract this, make a deliberate effort to recognise the goodness, sweetness & delightfulness in you
People high in self-awareness are remarkably clear in their understanding of what they do well, what motivates and satisfies them, and which people and situations push their buttons.
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves • Emotional Intelligence 2.0
“Sometimes it’s easier to just look at yourself as the fucked-up one because it gives you a pass on doing any work on yourself because like, well, at least you’re self-aware,”