The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Travis Bradberry’s book Emotional Intelligence 2.0
“The biggest obstacle to increasing your self–awareness is the tendency to avoid the discomfort that comes from seeing yourself as you really are.”
Adopted from David Rock’s great quote from his book Your Brain at Work..
“Without this ability to stand outside your experience, without self-awareness, you would have little ability to moderate and direct your behavior moment to moment. Such real-time, goal-directed modulation of behavior is the key to acting as a mature adult. You need this capacity to free yourself from the automatic flow of experience, and to choose where to direct your attention. Without a director you are a mere automaton, driven by greed, fear, or habit.”