274: The Power of Self-Awareness
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Do you know yourself? Really? Do you know what makes you tick and what drives you... what lights you up and what dims your fired? Self-awareness doesn't come naturally, like all forms of intelligence, it's cultivate and learned over time—but very few people take the time to invest in this skill. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll learn how both internal and external self-awareness can be meta-skills in modern life.
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Listen & Learn:
- Internal vs. external self awareness
- Why self-acceptance can be better than self-esteem
- Why the tendency is to avoid giving feedback when we really need it
- Why you must be picky about whom you receive feedback from
- The Dinner of Truth: find a "loving critic" and ask them what the most appreciate and what most drives you crazy
- Calm acceptance: how people
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| 0:00.0 | When I first started teaching yoga, all of my friends, all of my colleagues had one style of yoga they taught and they would all teach in yoga studios and they would all teach 90 minute classes. |
| 0:09.0 | Over the 14 years that I've been in the yoga world everything's really changed. |
| 0:13.4 | Almost every yoga teacher I know now teaches multiple styles of yoga in multiple locations |
| 0:18.5 | and yoga studios are just one of them. |
| 0:20.7 | For yoga teachers it's a really good thing. |
| 0:22.1 | It means that there is better paying jobs, more variety of jobs, a lot more flexible schedules and people can work both in public and private sector. |
| 0:31.0 | A lot of my colleagues and graduates work for themselves. |
| 0:34.0 | So it's a good time to be a yoga teacher. |
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| 0:38.0 | but you're just not sure if it's really the right thing for you, |
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