Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XDD9NB6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 443 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through stories of people who've made dramatic gains in self-awareness, she offers surprising secrets, techniques, and strategies to help listeners do the same - and therefore improve their work performance, career satisfaction, leadership potential, relationships, and more. At a time when self-awareness matters more than ever, Insight is the essential playbook for surviving and thriving in an unaware world.. The first definitive book on the science of self-awareness, Insight is a fascinating journey into everyone's favorite topic: themselves. Unfortunately, we are remarkably poor judges of ourselves and how we come across, and it's rare to get candid, objective feedback from colleagues, employees, and even friends and family. Integrating hundreds of studies with her own research and work in the Fortune 500 world, organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich shatters conventional assumptions about what it takes to truly know ourselves - like why introspection isn't a bullet train to insight, how experience is the enemy of self-knowledge, and just how far others will go to avoid telling us the truth about ourselves. Do you understand who you really are? Or how others really see you? We all know people with a stunning lack of self-awareness - but how often do we consider whether we might have the same problem? Re
Alla S. said insight: why we're not as self-aware as we think we are. This was an interesting book about the importance of being self-aware. A fact that's noted throughout the book is that one can be externally self-aware without being internally self-aware and vice versa. Self-confidence doesn't have anything to do with self-awareness as studies quoted concluded that the most confident are generally the least competent. Interestingly, despite all the literature on self-confidence, this book mentions that the overall confidence of the population has dramatically gone up over the last decades as opposed to the mid-twent. Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life Scott H. It was with great anticipation that I cracked open the new book by Dr. Tasha Eurich, Insight: Why We’re not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life. I was not disappointed. Dare I say, this new resource is packed full of insights and it is likely a book that the reader will not put down until it is consumed.On one hand this author grounds her cogent observations in research, accounting for a myriad of studies to support her many assertions. On the other hand, what makes this book so reada. TLCS said Interesting, pragmatic, and instantly actionable. Insight surprised me! I expected to confirm my understanding of self-awareness and, instead, from the first chapter, started understanding this topic completely differently. It's neither too dense nor too fluffy. The stories from the author about both herself and her subjects keep the narrative moving and provide examples I could relate to. The scientific basis made this topic more interesting and accessible to me. And just when I was concentrating on some dense topic, I'd be startled into laughing out loud. Very balanced.I read it quickly and now am