How to Develop Greater Self-Awareness

<p>95% of people say that they're self-aware. But only 10-15% of people actually are. As my guest today says, that means "on a good day, 80% of us are lying to ourselves about how much we're lying to ourselves" and this blind spot can have big repercussions for our success and happiness. </p><p>Her name is <a href="https://www.tashaeurich.com/">Tasha Eurich</a>, and she's an organizational psychologist and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525573941/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0525573941&linkCode=as2&tag=stucosuccess&linkId=FSXA3GZUT5SFDAZ4"><i>Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life</i></a>. Tasha kicks off our conversation by arguing that our level of self-awareness sets the upper limit of our individual effectiveness and that self-awareness can be developed and is truly the meta skill of the 21st century. She then unpacks what it is you know about yourself when you possess self-awareness, how there are two types of this knowledge, internal and external, and how you can have one without the other. Tasha then outlines the seven pillars of self-awareness, the barriers to getting insights into them --  including falling into the cult of self -- and how these barriers can be overcome, including asking yourself a daily check-in question. We then discuss how two of the most common methods for gaining self-knowledge -- introspection and journaling -- can in fact backfire and how to do them more effectively by asking yourself <i>what</i> instead of <i>why</i>, and actually journaling less instead of more. We also get into why you should be an <i>in</i>-former, rather than a <i>me</i>-former on social media, how to become more mindful without meditation, and how to solicit and handle feedback from other people, including holding something called the "Dinner of Truth."</p><p><i>If reading this in an email, click the title of the post to listen to the show.</i></p><h3>Resources/People/Art