Knowing ourselves is the first priority. We tend to underestimate the importance of knowing ourselves. How could we realistically set goals, go about life and have successful relationships if we don’t even have a clear understanding of our own? To know yourself better:
- Know about your advantages and disadvantages
Record your expected result before getting started on something and compare the actual result or effect with your expectation upon completion. You will find that you can and can’t do well in which aspects, respectively through comparison. By doing so, you can soon discover your own advantages and disadvantages.
2. Know how you learn and do things
You shall know your way of thinking before knowing the way of doing things.
For example, you might be good at macro and abstract thinking and generalization, while people around you may be skilled in micro but concrete thinking and execution. If you work as a team, it will be a team complemented. You will get twofold results with half the effort in your work and study if having good cooperation and communication with the people who you know are different from you.
3. What motivates you
You need to consider your personal driving force that can be either your value or interest upon knowing your own advantages as well as ways of learning and doing things. What kinds of things are meaningful in your value and what thrills you in your interests. The intersection of both decides your motivation in study and work. Only after you have found out your source of motivation can you have a true direction to move forward.