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Self-Awareness Helps You Identify Character Flaws
Being self-aware allows you to identify your flaws. This is important because it helps you to learn how to play to them. You can figure out how to manipulate your character flaws to use them to your advantage. This helps you succeed in both your professional and personal life.
Being self-aware helps you take a closer look at yourself and your choices to help you identify your flaws and figure out how to work with them. When you work with your character flaws, you are able to maximize your good qualities. Not only do you possess your good qualities, but you have learned to manipulate your flaws to turn them into strengths.
Self-Awareness Helps You Adjust to Those Around You
Being self-aware also means that you’re acutely aware of the impact and affect your words, actions, and decisions have on others. This means that you learn how to adjust to those around you and code-switch to meet their needs and appease their sensitivities.
Reaching this level of self-awareness allows you to adjust how you speak and the topics you choose to bring up based on who you’re around and their specific sensitivities. As you decide what best to say, you’ll be more aware of what other people want to hear and how what you say will affect them.
Self-Awareness Helps You Identify Mental and Physical Health Concerns
If you perfect your self-awareness, you’ll find that it’s easier to identify any warning signs of potential mental and/or physical health concerns. You’ll know when something’s wrong with your body and you need to either make an adjustment or consult a physician.
You’ll also be acutely aware of your warning signs for too much stress and other mental health concerns. This means that you’ll know right away if you’ve been over-stressing yourself so you can address it before it becomes a problem.
Self-Awareness Helps You Adjust to Professional Settings
Code-switching is never more important than it is in a professional setting. You have to remain professional to be perceived as professional. This means that it’s necessary and even crucial for you to improve your self-awareness and be able to identify when you need to curb your behavior to best meet the setting you’re in.
As you become more self-aware, you’ll notice that you’ll be more in tune with those around you; you’ll be able to read them better. You’ll also be able to see more clearly where, exactly, you need to adjust or curb your language and/or behavior to appear professional to them and meet their standards.
One of the most important skills you can develop in life is your self-awareness abilities. Being self-aware can get you far in life, while also improving your relationships and friendships by making you a better person that takes others into consideration more frequently.
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I have spent many years working on becoming more self aware as I navigated this thing called life. And, yes, it has been an adventure with too many twists and turns. I nearly became lost but have managed to get through the worst of it and to recognize the best of it. And, yes, I have felt as if I were completely alone in the process. Thank you for helping me realize that that just isn’t true.