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Blind Spots: Insight for Self-Awareness

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If you don’t take the time to learn how to increase it when it’s low then this blind spot will have you slaving in the mire of mediocrity for the rest of your life.

“People who can not motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents”. -Andrew Carnegie

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5. In your business/professional life what drives you more, solving a problem or attaining a goal?

This is another question on self-motivation. Although solving a problem or attaining a goal may lead to the same outcome, one method of getting there is probably more compelling for you than the other method.

Look at this way. Some people would rather take a cruise to Bahamas and others would prefer to fly. Either way it’s still the same destination.

Self-Assessment vs. Self-Deception

Most people are incredibly incompetent when it comes to accurately assessing themselves. Various psychological experiments have shown that most people have a tendency to be unrealistically optimistic or overly pessimistic.

People are great at picking out the flaws in others but will miss the same flaws in themselves.

This is the epitome of self-deception.

We tend to unconsciously use our own self-theory as a blueprint for how everyone else should operate. Think about that.

Recently I was reading an article in a journal on communication theory. The article explained that according to research, a person often has trouble noticing certain character flaws in his or herself but can be quite adept at picking out the same character flaws in another person.

In other words many of the things that we don’t like about others are things that we unconsciously don’t like about ourselves. Now that’s deep, isn’t it?

People love to come down on others. Why beat yourself up when you can beat somebody else up, right?

Wrong. Don’t beat anyone up, especially yourself! (Well …some people really do need to get beat up but we aren’t talking about them we’re talking about you).

Take inventory of the people you spend the most time around. What flaws do they have? What do they do that really irks you? How do know that you don’t possess similar shortcomings? Birds of a feather…

Ask yourself-

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