We're at McKay here and welcome to know the addition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

95% of people say that they're self-aware, but only 10 to 15% of people actually are.

As my guest today says, that means on a good day, 80% of us are lying to ourselves

about how much we're lying to ourselves, and this blind spot can have big repercussions

for our success and happiness.

Her name is Tasha Yurick, and she's an organizational psychologist and the author of Insight, why we're

not as self-aware as we think, and how seen ourselves clearly helps us succeed at work

and in life.

Tasha kicks off her conversation by arguing that our level of self-awareness sets the upper

limit of our individual effectiveness, and that self-awareness can be developed and

is truly the metascale of the 21st century.

She then impacts what it is you know about yourself when you possess self-awareness,

how there are two types of this knowledge, internal and external, and how you can have

one without the other.

Tasha then outlines the seven pillars of self-awareness, the barriers to getting insights into them,

including falling into the cult of self, and how these barriers can be overcome, including

asking yourself a daily check-in question.

We then discuss how two of the most common methods of gaining self-knowledge, introspection,

journaling can in fact backfire how to do them more effectively by asking yourself

what, instead of why, and actually journaling less, instead of more.

We also get into why you should be an informer rather than a meformer on social media,

how to become more mindful with that meditation, and how to solicit and handle feedback from

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