Inspirational articles on understanding yourself correctly
The prerequisite for changing yourself is to know where you need to change and why you need to change. In other words, it is to understand yourself correctly. Only by knowing yourself correctly can you achieve success.
In life, you may know many people, but it is easy to know others, but it is not easy to know yourself. This is a true portrayal of life and social cognition. The absolute truth.
People often say that the real self is actually uglier than the one in the mirror. Even with appearance as an easy-to-identify phenomenon and with a real and objective tool like a mirror, people will still misjudge their own beauty. Degree, not to mention character, quality and other aspects that are much more difficult to judge than appearance. In reality, there is no "magic mirror" that tells the truth. You can imagine how difficult it is to understand yourself correctly.
The great ancient Greek philosopher Socrates always claimed to know nothing. His famous saying is: know yourself. Its significance lies in: emphasizing the status of people and emphasizing the role of psychology and behavior. Understanding oneself is the core content of perfecting personality and plays an intrinsic and whole-process regulating role in individual psychology and behavior.
Knowing yourself is the prerequisite for mastering yourself, developing yourself and surpassing yourself. On the road to success, your enemy will always be yourself. Only by knowing yourself and constantly knowing your mistakes can you discover your true self, just like you can see your face clearly by wiping off the water mist on the mirror in the morning.
Knowing yourself is a manifestation of human wisdom, and changing yourself is the stepping stone to a successful life. If you want to know yourself correctly, you need objective self-evaluation, so that you can find your position. Whether you can truly understand and affirm yourself, how to shape your personal image, how to grasp your self-development, etc. will affect or determine a person's future and destiny to a great extent.
If you want to quickly gain a foothold in the future society, you must first have a comprehensive and profound understanding of yourself. Lao Tzu pointed out: He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise. Sun Tzu also said: Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. The sages have constantly taught us the importance of knowing ourselves. To understand yourself comprehensively means not only recognizing your inner qualities, but also understanding external factors. Such as gender, physical condition, appearance factors, family environment, social relationships, economic situation, etc.
For thousands of years, many philosophers have advised us to know ourselves. However, most people interpret it as knowing the negative side of ourselves, and include too much in part of their self-evaluations. shortcomings, mistakes and incompetencies. To know yourself, you must know yourself correctly and comprehensively, and never underestimate yourself.
Knowing yourself means objectively evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses, and understanding your own uniqueness and development potential. To understand yourself is to understand your own physical characteristics, as well as your ideals, values, hobbies, abilities, personality and other psychological characteristics; to understand yourself, you must understand three aspects: What do I want to do? What will I do? What can I do? Only by knowing yourself can you tap into your potential, develop yourself, transcend yourself, and sublime yourself.
Of course, it is not easy to understand yourself correctly, because people's self-understanding is a process of development and improvement.
To correctly understand yourself, you must have a clear understanding of yourself. First of all, you should recognize that you are a living being with consciousness, that is, you can know yourself; secondly, you should know that you are an individual with certain intelligence and capable of rational thinking, that is, you have the ability to know yourself objectively and correctly; and finally, you should know yourself. Unique self-awareness, that is, knowing what is unique about the individual. This understanding process first starts from the autonomy of living entities, then proceeds to the understanding of the autonomy of human beings, and finally returns to the individual, that is, the self itself to understand oneself. People are conscious and aware, and each person has a different consciousness. This different consciousness is the unique self of each person, including personality, ability, experience, hobbies, thoughts, behaviors and emotions. The world, etc.
To correctly understand ourselves requires us to face life calmly and understand the path of life scientifically. Life is a process of continuous learning, continuous understanding, continuous choice, continuous action and continuous change.
Therefore, this also determines that the road of life is tortuous and uneven, and the ship of life is not smooth sailing. Failures in career, ups and downs in life, adversities, and misfortunes... But we cannot be downcast because of this, nor do we have to blame others, not to mention, because the path of life can be changed, and the difficulties encountered can be overcome.
To understand yourself correctly, you need to evaluate yourself objectively and correctly. A person often overestimates or underestimates his talents, knowledge, achievements, contributions and his status in the minds of others. When going uphill, you will think that with your own abilities, everything you ask for and want in life can be easily obtained, and you will often regard certain luck and opportunities as your own abilities and levels. Such proud people are actually mediocre people. When going downhill, it is easy to regard difficulties and various unfavorable factors as one's own incompetence, doubt oneself, belittle oneself, and shake the confidence and courage in life. People with this kind of inferiority complex are very sensitive to external reactions and easily accept negative hints.
It should be noted that a rational person has an objective and correct evaluation and positioning of all aspects of himself, and will never overestimate or underestimate himself at any time or under any circumstances. . Otherwise, it is easy to damage yourself, your present and future, and your physical and mental health.
To correctly understand yourself, you need to actively affirm and improve yourself. You may have a bumpy fate and not have a well-off economy or a successful career, but since ancient times, great talents have suffered many hardships. Many great people in the world have grown up and achieved brilliant lives in the struggle against hardships. You may not be amazing in appearance, and you may not have the beauty of a handsome man or a beautiful woman. Natural conditions, but handsomeness and beauty are not synonymous with success; you may have a mediocre IQ and no talent or talent that can be spoken or remembered, but if a genius does not have acquired diligence, the spark of genius will be easily extinguished. To actively affirm and improve yourself means to objectively analyze your own strengths and weaknesses. Don't compare your own shortcomings with those of others, and don't always see your own strengths. You must use your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. In this way, you can adjust your mood to the best, maximize your actions, live happily, and strive optimistically.
To know yourself correctly means not being afraid of what others say and doing what you should do. Someone defines it this way: Doing what you should do is smart, doing what you shouldn't do is stupid. Following what others say and being swayed by other people's opinions is a sign of having no independent opinion and is also a taboo for a successful life. The essence is that you do not know yourself correctly, do not believe in yourself, and fail to express your true self. If you identify the goal of struggle, you must gather your energy, fight with all your strength, and do what you should do. At any time, we must recognize this truth: It does not matter what kind of person or what kind of person others think you are, what matters is what kind of person or what kind of person you think you are.
When people understand themselves, they tell themselves their intentions and experiences, thoughts and feelings by understanding their own thoughts and concepts, psychology and behaviors, so as to adjust themselves, control themselves and constantly improve themselves. , and also consciously adjust their actions according to their own needs and social requirements.
German chemist Otto Wallach is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his development process is legendary. When Wallach started middle school, his parents chose a literary path for him. Unexpectedly, after one semester, his teacher wrote this comment for him: "Wallach is very studious, but too rigid. Even if such a person has It is impossible to display perfect moral character in literature." At this time, his parents had no choice but to respect their son's opinion and let him study oil painting instead. But Wallach was neither good at composition nor polishing, and his understanding of art was not strong. His grades were last in the class. The school's comments are even more unacceptable: "You are an unachievable talent in the art of painting." Faced with such a "clumsy" student, most teachers think he is hopeless. Only the chemistry teacher thinks he is meticulous and has the ability to do things. Good quality of chemical experiment application, it is recommended that he try to learn chemistry. The parents accepted the chemistry teacher's advice. At this time, Wallach's spark of wisdom was ignited. The "unachievable talent" in literature and art suddenly became a recognized "talented student with a bright future" in chemistry, and eventually won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
It is difficult to know others, but it is even harder to know yourself. Everyone must understand themselves correctly, otherwise, they will not be able to handle the relationship between themselves and others, and between themselves and reality, which will be detrimental to physical and mental health.
In fact, people's understanding of themselves is always developing, and it is always a process of continuous knowledge seeking. People's understanding of themselves may be very different today compared with yesterday, but it does not mean that today's understanding is the truth and has reached the end; the same is true for the understanding of others. Never think that other people's thoughts and opinions are different. If it is correct, your views and opinions are correct and they are the truth. Even if your own ideas and concepts have some correctness, you should still see its shortcomings and imperfections and accept the test of practice.
Knowing yourself requires positive thinking; the way to know yourself is self-introspection; to know yourself is to develop a gold mine, that is, to tap your own potential and work hard to learn to know yourself correctly. Only when we understand ourselves correctly can we know that success is never achieved by defeating others. Success has nothing to do with others, but only with ourselves. ;