Awareness

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Starting Up Your Own Self Detective Agency
Part 10 - Awareness

It may seem obvious, but we will say it nonetheless:

With awareness you are likely to create more choices in your life
Without awareness you are likely to repeat the same actions, the same thoughts, the same emotions over and over again
With constant, ongoing awareness you are likely to grow and develop and change – and hopefully flourish
With constant, ongoing unawareness you are likely to stay the same

Q: What would you say you are most aware of in your life?

Q: What would you say you are least aware of in your life?

Johari window

Johari window is a great way to visualise which areas to focus on in order to improve your self-awareness.
Within four different windows there are four different versions of yourself, each with varying degrees of self-knowledge and shared knowledge.

Following on from the explanation above, we invite you to use your own personal Johari window in order to make notes and add to every time you make a breakthrough in your understanding of yourself.

My Johari window

MY PUBLIC SELF	MY PRIVATE SELF

MY HIDDEN SELF	MY UNKNOWN SELF

Blind spots

A blind spot in physical terms refers to a part of our eye that cannot see.
A blind spot in psychological terms refers to a reality that we cannot see (or refuse to see).
There are a number of reasons why this may be.
One of the biggest causes of blind spots comes when our own values and beliefs and experiences cloud our thinking and our judgements.
Another reason is the fear of what we might see, coupled with the perceived threat to our very being if we find out that things aren’t quite how we thought they were.

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