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Aristotle once said, “The wise begin with self-knowledge.”

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Editor’s note: Self-awareness is one of the key differences between humans and animals, and it is also the starting point of human reason and civilization. We may have struggled, how can we improve our self-awareness and improve our self-examination ability, so as to further understand and improve ourselves. The original title of this article is Ask Yourself These 20 Questions to Improve Your Self-Awareness, the author is the popular growth topic blogger Darius Foroux. In the article, Darius shares the self-awareness method with 20 list questions of self-reflection, and hopes to be useful to you.

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Self-awareness is one of the key elements of success. This is not the truth that no one knows. In fact, for thousands of years, people have always agreed with this view. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle once said: “The wise begin with self-knowledge.”

To really know yourself, you need to invest enough. Unfortunately, there is no fixed path to self-awareness in the world, nor is there a standard way of achieving self-awareness.

However, you can take the time to reflect and carefully review your skills, expectations, and motivations. In this way, you can better improve your self-awareness.

For me, I have summarized 20 self-reflection questions to help me further improve my self-awareness:

1. What am I good at?

2. Which areas do I perform in general?

3. What am I not good at?

4. What will make me exhausted?

5. What is the most important thing in my life?

6. Who is the most important person in my life?

7. How much sleep do I need per day?

8. What will make me multiply?

9. What will make me feel at ease?

10. What is my definition of success?

11. Work and life, am I “divided” or “inseparable”?

12. What do I want in my eyes?

13. What will make me sad?

14. What will make me happy?

15. What will make me angry?

16. What will make me afraid?

17. What type of person do I want to be?

18. What type of friends do I want to have?

19. How do I conduct self-evaluation?

20. What is the most important thing in my life?

If you want to try to answer these questions, be sure to record what first appeared in your mind. Of course, you don’t have to go too far to understand the specific meaning of each question. Everyone has the opinion of everyone, and this is the key.

In addition, your initial answer is not necessarily the most important. What’s really important is that these questions can motivate you to think, especially those that may be particularly difficult to answer, such as “What am I not good at?”

Next, there is a more important link, reasoning.

Combining Aristotle’s approach to rational appeal (logos), by integrating your thinking about these issues, to change and improve your life.

In the book “Republics Ancient and Modern”, historian Paul Rahe is a good example of the concept of rational appeal. He wrote:

For Aristotle, rational appeal is not a refining concept, but rather an ability to open up personal emotions. Through rational appeals, he can observe and use logical statements to clearly tell others how to distinguish ‘what is beneficial’ and what is harmful…

So, to improve your self-awareness, you should try to understand and have your ownClose things, find out what is beneficial and which is harmful to you.

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So, what do you do next?

Once you can distinguish between the pros and cons, you should take the appropriate action. Let the things that are good for you double, and at the same time eliminate the unfavorable things as much as possible. In addition, do more things that you are good at, or things that make you feel happy; at the same time, you should avoid things that are good at it, or things that make you feel sad.

That’s it. This is to understand yourself.

Of course, you can’t literally understand this content. For example, interpersonal relationships may both make you happy and may make you sad. But that doesn’t mean you need to avoid getting close to anyone or discarding relationships that might make you sad. In contrast, you should try to avoid specific content that may affect your relationships, such as selfishness, lies, and lack of empathy.

As for how to practice rational appeals in daily life, I have the following four suggestions:

• First, read more philosophy. If you don’t know where to start, I recommend reading books like The Story of Philosophy by philosopher Will Durant. Philosophy is reasoning. If you read more philosophical books, you can better express and think about various viewpoints.

• Second, maintain a neutral attitude in communicating with others. Don’t try to prove a point, learn to analyze and reason from multiple angles.

• Third, write a diary and organize your thoughts. In this process, ask more questions. For example, David made me angry today. why? Because he lied to me. why? Because he doesn’t want to make me sad. why? Because he cares about me.

• Fourth, communication, communication, communication. Multiple manufacturing opportunities to communicate with friends, colleagues and mentors around you. Express your thoughts by word, youYou will find new things in your body, especially when you are talking to friends who always like to ask questions and lead you to think.

These are my own ways to improve my self-awareness. Undoubtedly, reflection is not easy. After all, you must be honest with yourself first, but because the truth is really too scarce, we always like to lie. Fortunately, since I began to consciously practice self-awareness, I really found that my life has improved significantly.

So, start by understanding and improving yourself and make your life easier.

Translator: Ishii Junichi