The Quiet Power of Self-Awareness: Knowing What We Don’t Know About Ourselves
The Quiet Power of Self-Awareness: Knowing What We Don’t Know About Ourselves Yesterday, I asked a group of students a deceptively simple question: “How well do you know yourself?” Most smiled confidently. A few nodded as if the answer was obvious. One honest voice said, “Still figuring it out.” Then I asked a second question: “How do you know what you don’t know about yourself?” Silence. Because the deepest gap in self-awareness isn’t lack of knowledge — it is unknown ignorance. We don’t know that we don’t know. We don’t know how our tone sounds to others. We don’t know our triggers until something touches a nerve. We don’t know our strengths because they feel ordinary to us. We don’t know our limits until life pushes us past them. Many people walk through life convinced they are self-aware simply because they have opinions about themselves. But self-awareness is not self-description. It is self-discovery. When Life Becomes the Mirror Often, awareness doesn’t come from int...
