Fundamental 4: Self-Awareness: Introspection

Self-Awareness is having a realistic assessment of the world, knowing who you are and how you fit into that world. It is developing a view of the yourself that reflects your core values, preferences, priorities, strengths, and weaknesses. Being aware of these of yourself can help you figure out what you want, know your gifts and talents are, and enable you to navigate effectively through life. The first step of developing self-awareness is to look within yourself and acknowledge your own social identities, those given to you at birth as well as those that you have chosen. These also include the core value that you hold, which lead you in making leadership decisions. Our social identities impact the lens through which we see and experience the world creating implicit biases that influence our decision-making. By recognizing our implicit biases, we can challenge them to give us a more realistic and open-minded perspective of the worked and the people we encounter.