Why Most People Lack Self-Awareness
Do you think you are self-aware?
Until about five years ago, I was utterly convinced that this label applied to me.
But really, I was clueless. I mistook being self-critical for self-awareness. This mistake led me to believe that the way I saw myself and the world was completely accurate. This happens when we haven’t brought what’s stored in our unconscious mind into awareness. Until then, we see life through a distorted lens and believe it’s objective reality.
Researchers confirmed in the Harvard Business Review that the majority of us are deluded about ourselves and how others experience us: “Even though most people believe they are self-aware, self-awareness is a truly rare quality: We estimate that only 10–15 percent of the people we studied actually fit the criteria.”
The authors found that there are two types of self-awareness: internal and external self-awareness:
Internal self-awareness represents how clearly we see our own values, passions, aspirations, [how we] fit with our envi…
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