Self Awareness: The most overlooked quality

Let's talk about the foundation of the materialistic world, Self Awareness. Self Awareness is what can help you reach the highest level of existence in this world. Since time immemorial, human beings have been traversing, scouting, and prospecting ways to push forward humanity, both in the materialistic and the spiritualistic world. Things that were not even imaginable a hundred years ago have been made an everyday reality by humans' determination, knowledge, and action. Self Awareness is the substrate of those qualities.

Amplify your Mind

Let me start by telling you a small story first.

One sunny day, there was a fish swimming peacefully in an ocean. She took a small detour and after swimming continuously for the next 20min she found herself in a well.

There she met a frog, and they started conversing. The fish told the frog to accompany her so that she can show her the ocean. The frog demanded how big was this "ocean", to which the fish replied, "it's enormous." The frog stretched its arms and questioned," is it this big?", to which the fish laughed him off and said, "it's much bigger than that."

Then the frog asked, "ok, so it must be as big as this well", to which the fish again dismissed him by saying, "no! it is bigger than anything you have ever seen." The frog didn't buy it, and said, "it's not possible since there's nothing outside this well."

Photo by Austin Santaniello Bucholtz on UnsplashSo, you see, both the frog and the fish are right from their own standpoints. The frog just needs to open his mind for a moment and just assume that maybe what the fish was saying is perhaps right. Unless he opens his mind to new information like this, he will never be able to discover the ocean and will spend his entire life living in the well.

What's Self Awareness?

According to Wikipedia, "self-awareness is the experience of one's own personality or individuality. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. While consciousness is being aware of one's environment and body and lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness."

You must have noticed that sometimes two people who have the same kind of knowledge and experiences, but even after this one of them can outperform the other.

Why is this happening? Doesn't this exist everywhere, in every field? Some people can grasp one thing quicker than the other. Ever wondered what's the reason behind this? That's right, you guessed it, SELF AWARENESS. Some people are more aware than others, because of which, even after having the same skill set, one can outdo another.

In the Olympics, people from all around the world, come and compete, giving their 100%. Each of them has practiced tens of hundreds of times, but during the competition, the person whose self-awareness is more takes the gold. Their awareness level is sooo high, that the winners can gather all their attention and focus wandering all around the world, to that particular game-deciding moment.

Why Self Awareness is Important?

Everybody in this world has different levels of self-awareness. Some have a low, and some have a really high level of awareness.

The more your awareness, the more possibilities you have in life. If one's self-awareness is super strong, then his chances of being successful, in whatever field he is in, grow manyfold. One can learn anything faster, better, and more efficiently, thanks to his awareness.

Now comes the question that if 'self-awareness' is so important for us, then why no one is talking about it anywhere? Did your school talk about this? Do your parents, family, and friends ever discuss this? Well, the thing is that people aren't aware of "awareness". We need to understand that knowledge is temporary, but the ability to learn something new - that's something way more powerful and effective for you to discover.

Everyone is just spouting "pay attention to your studies", "be attentive towards your work", but why is no one telling us how exactly can one start paying more attention to things which actually matter?

First, it's imperative to understand how distracted one is. The children or the youth of the country have their attention bandwidth occupied in so many different places, which is precisely why they are not able to focus on the things that actually matter.

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