
Self-Awareness: Why it Matters
Self-awareness is a choice to go within. It is the only path to our authenticity and, thus, our fulfillment. Even so, most of us have been trained to focus on fitting in rather than standing out in order to achieve success. Our focus is on what others think of us instead of awareness of who we truly are. There is an underlying belief that we should already have complete self-awareness, and if we don’t, it really doesn’t matter all that much. The standard definition of self-aw