Self-knowledge includes admitting the parts of you that you still don’t understand yet.

Most pictures of self-knowledge look finished, as if the work ends with a neat summary. The honest version has blank patches on it, places where you do something and cannot say why. Naming those blanks is more accurate than filling them with a tidy story.

Try keeping a short list of things you do that you cannot explain yet. A mood that arrives on certain days, a person who gets under your skin, a subject you avoid. Leave them unanswered on purpose and see what the next few months add.