How to Become More Self-Aware

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🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist and executive coach, talks about why we all should be working on self-awareness. Few people are truly self-aware, she says, and those who are don’t get there through introspection. She explains how to develop self-awareness through the feedback of loving critics and how to mentor someone who isn’t self-aware. Eurich is the author of the book “Insight.”

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. Self-awareness is one of those important and difficult to achieve goals because it's
0:49.7	hard to know who we really are and how we're coming across to other people.
0:54.0	Our guest today is an organizational psychologist and an expert on developing self-awareness.
0:59.2	There's an exercise she recommends that seems so helpful and yet so unpleasant.
1:04.2	She takes people out to what she calls the dinner of truth,
1:07.8	and she asks them to tell her what about her annoys
1:10.9	them the most?
1:12.1	I learned from a very close friend of mine,
1:14.0	he said, I love you in real life,
1:16.7	but I hate you on social media.
1:18.8	Yeah, imagine hearing that.
1:21.0	It's a lot to take in.
1:22.4	And what happens in that moment after they give you
1:24.6	that feedback? Do you freak out? Do you start getting defensive? Do you start explaining
1:29.1	it away? Or do you simply say, thank you for that feedback?
1:33.4	Tasha Eurek is the author of the book Insight,
1:36.2	why we're not as self-aware as we think
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