Getting to know yourself takes years. You wouldn’t expect to know a stranger after one weekend either.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Knowing yourself is not a task with a completion date, and treating it like one produces a lot of unnecessary frustration. You are changing while you study, which makes the subject a moving one, and the pace is closer to a long acquaintance than a single insight. Nobody expects to understand another person after a weekend.
Lower the expectation and keep the attention. Notice one thing a week rather than trying to settle the whole question. Over a year that accumulates into something real, and it arrives without the pressure of needing an answer by Friday.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What have you learned about yourself only this year?
MORE IN MINDSET & IDENTITY
- You don’t need a room full of people to understand you. You need to understand yourself.
- In every group you play a role: the planner, the clown, the peacemaker. Know yours so you can choose it on purpose.
- Make your own company someplace worth sticking around. Good books, kind thoughts, a decent playlist.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.