self awareness on Emotional Intelligence

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Paradoxically, if we wish to become more aware of others and their concerns, there is perhaps no better work we can do than developing self-awareness. Consider the findings of a team of psychologists ...

A belligerent samurai . . . once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. But the monk replied with scorn, “You’re nothing but a lout—I can’t waste my time with the likes of ...

Empathy often goes hand-in-hand with self-awareness. The people who are good at empathy are not only good at picking up on other people’s feelings, but they—they’re also good at reflecting on their ow...

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

In the heat of leadership, with the adrenaline pumping, it is easy to convince yourself that you are not subject to the normal human frailties that can defeat ordinary mortals. You begin to act as if ...

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We are not always comfortable with the true self that lies deep within us.

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that ...

The final mystery is oneself.

People can say one thing and do something totally different. You see the darkness that is often hidden from polite society. The thing that you see is a widespread insecurity. I think people put on a f...

Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it...

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

In his poem Cocktail Party , T. S. Eliot captures a fundamental truth about human nature and the source of much hurt in the world. People’s actions are rarely driven by outright malice—intended t...

I was born into this world with a tortured sensitivity. For long I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.

We spend the whole of our whole lives watching ourselves. But when a man becomes meek he has finished/

The BuzzFeed-style quiz is taking over the internet, serving up answers to questions no one is asking. What Star Wars character are you? What restaurant trend describes your personality? Which Hogwart...

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

To know oneself, is above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against the Truth, and not the other way around.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Love . . . is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

The road to character often involves moments of moral crisis, confrontation, and recovery. When they were in a crucible moment, they suddenly had a greater ability to see their own nature. The everyda...

I’m a college professor — I have been for almost a decade. I work reasonably hard at my job, and I think I do it fairly well. In fact, in my honest and solitary moments, when there’s no occasion false...

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

One helpful, practical tool to understand our blind spot is what’s called the Johari Window, an image developed as a counseling tool in the 1950s. Subjects were given a list of fifty-six adjectives, a...