Self-awareness – The key to career and personal success.

Warren Buffet, a recognized business leader for the last half century, has said, “At Berkshire Hathaway, when we hire, we look for Integrity, Intelligence and High Energy. When we miss on the first character trait, the second two kill us.” In an equally profound quip, he said, “People are hired for their skills and fired for their behaviors.”

While Buffet doesn’t refer to high integrity and exceptional behaviors as elements of strong self-awareness, that is exactly what he means. Highly self-aware people virtually always display high integrity and extraordinary behaviors in their careers and personal lives.

The great challenge for our society is that very few of us are naturally highly self-aware. Those who do display the traits of high self-awareness were born with perhaps a more emotionally balanced personality, but even these people were lucky enough to find themselves in positive circumstances where their natural strengths were augmented by mentors and positive experiences.

Statistics show that only about 15% of the population is highly self-aware. This presents another conundrum in that those who lack self-awareness don’t realize they lack self-awareness. There is plenty of evidence supporting the notion that the less self-aware we are, the more we feel we are actually highly self-aware (the well-known Dunning-Krueger Bias.) This probably accounts for the current emotional discord so prevalent in our country and around the world today.

But self-awareness can be learned and that’s important news. Virtually everything we value improves as the number of highly self-aware people expands: economic growth and financial affluence, satisfaction with our careers and personal lives, far more kindness and forgiveness, better emotional and physical health, less poverty, more accepting relationships, more compassion and understanding, greater patience, better decision-making, more happiness in general.

Let’s look at just one example of how low self-awareness ravages our economic and societal foundation. Deception (scams, Ponzi schemes, fraud, embezzlement) in the U.S. today cost our country just shy of $1 trillion annually. That means we flush down the toilet 7% of our country’s total revenues even year.

Catching clever thieves before they fleece us is difficult, but we are at an even greater disadvantage when we don’t have clear values, (not knowing our wants and needs), don’t have clear boundaries or goals, don’t have a solid network of positive relationships. If we can’t make good, confident decisions, or when we have little understanding of our own fears, biases or prejudices, we can’t effectively judge the honesty or veracity of others involving financial transactions.

These shortcomings are the effect of having little self-awareness. And let’s remember, only 15% of the population possess highly developed self-awareness.

So if you claim brilliance in these qualities of high self-awareness, then you will benefit

greatly from additional self-awareness training, since it is always the highly skilled that gain the most from advanced learning. If you find yourself ranked lower on the scale of self-awareness (even if you might disagree with that assessment) you will gain more than you possibly could imagine, for you will uncover discoveries that will propel you toward much satisfaction and success in life.

Even one single discovery can make all the difference for you in your life.

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If you have questions, please direct them to:

Tom Searcy, BCC
tsearcy@spiritofeagles.com
574-850-9912