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Self-Awareness: 7 Signs That Show A Person Lack It
If you don’t know who you are, you cannot relate well with others.
You can have a clear sense of who you are but have no idea how you come across to others.
On the other hand, you can be so preoccupied with how others will perceive you that you lose sight of who you are and what you want for yourself.
In both of these instances, the gap between understanding who you are and how others see you can greatly impact your life and relationships.
Self-awareness is an essential skill that helps you objectively evaluate yourself and how your actions affect others, as well as understand how others perceive you.
Whether in personal or professional life, being self-aware makes can make a lot of difference in our lives. Yet, many people consciously do not develop this skill.
As Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist who’s invested years researching self-awareness has found, self-awareness is rare and only about 10-15 percent of people have it.
So, what are the things people do that shows a lack of self-awareness?