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You Aren’t Actually Self-Aware with Tasha Eurich

The Science of Success

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The Importance of Introspection for Self Awareness

Psychologists have found that despite what Sigmund Freud desperately wanted us to believe, no matter how hard we try, we actually can't access a lot of our thoughts, feelings, and motives. It's not that introspection in and of itself is wrong or unproductive for self awareness. It's that a lot of us make mistakes in the way we introspect that essentially suck out all of the insight from the experience.

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