Insight
Tasha Eurich on self-awareness and the blind spots you cannot see
Eurich separates knowing yourself from feeling that you do. The two come apart far more often than people expect. She splits self-awareness into an internal kind and an external kind, the second an accurate read on how you land with other people. Most of us, she argues, are missing the external half. Practical chapters cover soliciting honest feedback. Asking why tends to work worse than asking what.
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Suggested to anyone hunting their own blind spots. What he took from Tasha Eurich's book is that genuinely self-aware people do not spend much time agonizing over why they are the way they are.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #399 transcript
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