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The website content advocates for self-awareness through the practice of regular writing, emphasizing its effectiveness in discovering and understanding oneself over time.

Abstract

The article "A Bulletproof Way To Be Self Aware" discusses the importance of self-awareness and how writing can be a powerful tool for personal discovery. It acknowledges that despite believing we know ourselves well, we often encounter moments of surprise at our own reactions, indicating there is more to learn about our inner selves. The process of writing is highlighted as a method to delve into one's thoughts and experiences, suggesting that it doesn't necessarily need to be shared publicly but should be done consistently to form a habit that fosters self-reflection and reveals patterns in behavior and thinking. Over time, these patterns can help individuals understand both positive and negative aspects of their personality, allowing them to enhance their strengths and address their weaknesses. The article encourages readers to start writing today to embark on a lifelong journey of self-awareness and personal growth.

Opinions

The author believes that self-awareness is an ongoing process that can be facilitated by writing.
Writing is seen as a slow but effective way to spend time thinking and understanding oneself.
The article suggests that writing can be private, such as in a diary, but sharing it publicly can enhance honesty and provide opportunities for growth through feedback.
The author posits that noticing trends in one's writing can reveal insights into one's mindset, interests, and behaviors.
There is an acknowledgment that perfection is unattainable, but the pursuit of self-improvement through writing is a valuable and continuous endeavor.
The author encourages readers to embrace both positive and negative trends identified through writing, using them as opportunities to deepen self-knowledge and make positive changes.

A Bulletproof Way To Be Self Aware

How to discover yourself through writing

We all trust we know ourselves well. After all, we’ve lived with ourselves for our entire life, so shouldn’t we?

But still, we commonly find times at which we get surprised by our own reaction.

“Oh, why did this shock me? I’ve heard it a thousand times before though.”

“Wait a second. Why did I do that again?”

Or the typical reaction to someone reminding us of something we did previously and we can’t believe it: “Nah, you’re mixing things up. I would never do such a thing”.

This is clear proof that despite believing we know ourselves perfectly, we actually don’t. Yes, we know ourselves pretty well, but definitely not entirely.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a good thing!

Learn more about yourself

If you don’t know yourself entirely, this means you can keep learning more! There’s a part of you left to be discovered!

But wait, now that you know it, aren’t you going to get bored after working on those missing aspects you don’t know yet?

Well, luckily, we’re not that intelligent! Even if we spent years and years working on ourselves, trying to understand every single aspect of our personality and mindset, we still wouldn’t be able to grasp it all.

The reason? Let’s say, we’re a bit slow.

By the time we understand one “extra” part of us, the experiences and thoughts we’ve processed will have already merged into us without noticing and that’ll need some more introspecting to understand it. And so on, and so on.

For perfectionists — which I consider myself to be most of the time — this could be a problem. After all, this means we will never be able to reach that goal of perfection.

But it also makes it attractive in the sense that you can continuously improve, get better. Even though there are some aspects of yourself you won’t be able to make perfect, you might get close to it.

Write your way to self-awareness

Let’s get in the main reason you started reading this.

We have established the importance of knowing yourself, but how are you going to accomplish this?

Writing.

It is a slow process. That’s for sure. But writing forces us to spend time thinking.

It may not always be thinking about your life itself, but it uses your experiences, your beliefs, to turn into a piece written.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be to share with the world. It could be only a diary which you write for yourself, a notebook full of ideas you have, or even a drawing pad to keep drawings representing how you feel or think at that moment.

The important aspect is to do it daily.

Indeed, it won’t become useful until you repeat the process multiple times, over the course of months and years.

The habit created will not only turn you into someone more aware of his own actions and what happens around, but it’ll also show certain trends.

Find which parts of yourself are trending!

Just like Instagram or Twitter, there are things which appear more often than the rest. On Social Media, those show what interest people at that precise time.

However, if you look at trends over a long period of time, you will find patterns.

It may be patterns of mindset, interests, thought process, or even likes and dislikes.

When noticed, those patterns will allow you with the opportunity to dig deeper into them, discover more and further increase your knowledge about them if you wish to.

For example, I started writing online about 8 months ago and have recently noticed the reappearance of certain topics (such as time, focus and, of course, self-awareness). This has given me the opportunity to dive deeper into those topics, thus strengthening my knowledge into those. Which, in turn, provides for more opportunities to write about them in more and more precise ways.

Don’t just focus on the positive

Accept the fact you aren’t perfect and take notice of the negative trends which keep popping up.

Just like the positive will give you the opportunity to dig deeper, the negative will give you the chance to stop those patterns or at least turn them into more positive ones!

Sharing makes you honest

I did say a diary or any way which isn’t shared with the world can work as well. However, sharing with the world is even more efficient.

The scariness of sharing your deep thoughts with people you don’t know will always be present. But you are not the only one with those!

Opening yourself online can, on the contrary, help you overcome difficult situations by hearing from others or stop patterns by getting advice from people who have gone through the same.

The wish to vary the topics for the (certainly few for quite some time) readers you have will also create a variety of trends to notice, ones which you may have not written if you kept everything to yourself.

So, why not take the time today and write a little bit? If you’re lucky, you might already start noticing some parts of yourself and begin the lifelong journey to self-awareness.