Hello and welcome to Personality Hacker Podcast. I'm Jonathan and you are listening to

Personality and Practice. In the most recent podcast Joel and Antonio talk about self-appraisal and self-awareness.

If you were to ask me 20 years ago what self-awareness meant, I probably wouldn't have had an answer and right now I'm at the age

where I can't tell if that's because we just didn't talk about it back then or I was not a very

self-aware 20-year-old.

But either way, we are talking about it now.

And pretty much everywhere, as far as I can tell,

if I talk about self-awareness, everyone knows what I'm talking about.

Self-awareness is watching yourself behave, taking an objective view, almost as if you're watching

yourself in a movie.

Joel and Tony also talk about self-appraisal,

and they said the word modesty.

I do know that if you were to ask me 20 years ago,

if I was modest, I would become very flustered and almost felt like I was caught in a double bind because if I say I'm modest well now I'm at risk for being prideful in my modesty. But if I said

I'm not modest, I'm now at risk for being self-deceived, which would trigger a sense of pride within me.

Or I might have just thought you were talking about my horrible flirtatious streak and my ruthless modesty.

Either way, the word modest I think is the trigger for me and it might be a trigger for us all.

So I looked up the root word, modesty, and I found there's a common word, moderation, keeping due measure, appropriateness, and temperance.

Well, now I'm hooked because one of my personal core values is temperance.

I love it. Not too much, not too little. A perfect blend of all things into

moderation according to the temperature in the room.

So let's take a deeper dive into modesty and ask ourselves, why is it even important in our lives?

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