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3 C's of life: choice, chance, and change.
Your life is a reflection of your views, habits, attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, fears, worries and perceptions. And whether or not you’re aware of it, all these things come together to shape your mindset, who you are and the trajectory of your life.
Aristotle was right, “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Lao Tzu also said, “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
The relationship with yourself is one of the most important relationships in your life. The big idea here is to change your life for good and live life on your own terms, you first need to know who you really are.
A happy and better life starts with you. But if you don’t know to look at yourself in the mirror — or refuse to — then you haven’t done the foundational work necessary to even start designing the life you want.
Self-knowledge is the first and main ingredient in leading the life you want.
In her book, Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life, Tasha Eurich argues people who know themselves share common traits:
"There is strong scientific evidence that people who know themselves and how others see them are happier. They make smarter decisions. They have better personal and professional relationships. They raise more mature children. They’re smarter, superior students who choose better careers. They’re more creative, more confident, and better communicators."
Knowing yourself lets you live the life you truly want — you know who you are, what you want, and what brings out the best in you.
If you don’t have a full understanding of who you are, you will continue to make decisions against your true self.
Growth in life and career starts with self-knowledge
Many people are busy understanding everyone else to achieve wisdom but nobody bothers to understand their own mind.
Socrates was once asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: ‘Know yourself.’
The phrase, “Know thyself,” is centuries old, but it’s still relevant today. Research from psychologist Daniel Goleman shows that self-awareness is crucial for all levels of success.
Self-knowledge is about understanding your real (and true) needs, desires, goals, weaknesses, and everything else that makes you tick. It requires a deep understanding of your past and current self.
Your personal theories (self-narratives) about who you are, influence how you behave. An accurate sense of who you are makes self-improvement possible. Lao Tzu once said, “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
“Think of it this way: you can’t truly take care of yourself if you don’t know what your needs are, and you can’t improve yourself if you don’t know your best qualities and the ones that are, uh, more challenging,” says Terri Pous.
Instead of forcing things to happen for you, find yourself first.
Follow your own true north and let your life flow. While you live, while it’s in your power, seize the opportunity right now and build a better relationship with yourself.
Take a comprehensive personal inventory and/or commits to viewing oneself from the perspective of a third party, and write down what you know about yourself.
The basic idea of self-logging (if you collect enough data about yourself) is to make improvements or change the trajectory of your life based on that information.
Knowing yourself will give you a sense of power over yourself.
You owe it to yourself to find the real you. The path to your success starts with a critical look in the mirror. Self-awareness opens the door to wisdom.
The sooner you consciously examine and acknowledge your strengths, weaknesses, personal truth and most importantly what makes you come alive, the sooner you can stop hindering your personal growth.
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by GROK:
你的生活是你觀點、習慣、態度、信仰、思想、恐懼、擔憂和感知的反映。無論你是否意識到，這些因素共同塑造了你的心態、你的身份以及你的人生軌跡。
亞裏士多德說得對：“認識自己是一切智慧的起點。”
老子也曾說：“知人者智，自知者明。勝人者有力，自勝者強。”
與自己的關係是你生命中最重要的關係之一。這裏的核心理念是，要徹底改變你的生活並按照自己的方式生活，你首先需要了解真實的自己。
幸福和更美好的生活始於你自己。但如果你不知道如何審視自己——或者拒絕這樣做——那麽你就還沒有完成設計你想要生活的基礎工作。
自我認知是實現你想要生活的第一且主要的要素。
在她的書《洞察力：為什麽我們不像自己想的那麽有自知之明，以及清晰認識自己如何幫助我們在工作和生活中成功》中，塔莎·尤裏奇（Tasha Eurich）認為，了解自己的人具有共同特征：
“有強有力的科學證據表明，了解自己以及他人如何看待自己的人更幸福。他們做出更明智的決定。他們擁有更好的人際和職業關係。他們養育出更成熟的孩子。他們更聰明，是更優秀的學生，選擇更好的職業。他們更有創造力、更自信，並且是更好的溝通者。”
認識自己讓你能夠過上你真正想要的生活——你知道自己是誰，想要什麽，以及什麽能激發你的最佳狀態。
如果你不能完全了解自己，你將繼續做出違背真實自我的決定。
生活和職業的成長始於自我認知。
許多人忙於了解他人以獲得智慧，但很少有人費心去理解自己的內心。
蘇格拉底曾被問及所有哲學戒律可以歸結為何，他回答：“認識你自己。”
“認識你自己”這句話已有數百年曆史，但今天仍然適用。心理學家丹尼爾·戈爾曼（Daniel Goleman）的研究表明，自我意識對各個層次的成功至關重要。
自我認知是關於理解你真正的（真實的）需求、欲望、目標、弱點，以及所有讓你運轉起來的東西。它需要對你過去和現在的自我有深入的了解。
你對自己是誰的個人理論（自我敘事）會影響你的行為。對自己的準確認知使自我改進成為可能。老子曾說：“知人者智，自知者明。”
正如特裏·普斯（Terri Pous）所說：“這樣想吧：如果你不知道自己的需求是什麽，你就無法真正照顧自己；如果你不知道自己的優點和那些，呃，更具挑戰性的特質，你就無法改善自己。”
與其強迫事情發生，不如先找到自己。遵循你自己的真正方向，讓生活自然流動。在你活著的時候，在你有能力的時候，抓住現在的機會，與自己建立更好的關係。
進行全麵的個人盤點，或者承諾從第三方的視角審視自己，寫下你對自己的了解。
自我記錄的基本理念（如果你收集了足夠多的關於自己的數據）是根據這些信息改進或改變你的人生軌跡。認識自己會給你一種掌控自己的力量感。
你有責任找到真實的自己。通往成功的道路始於認真地審視自己。自我意識打開了通向智慧的大門。
你越早有意識地審視並承認自己的優點、弱點、個人真相以及最重要的是什麽讓你充滿活力，你就越早能停止阻礙自己的個人成長。
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