Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist who is passionate about researching self-awareness and translating that research into practical, actionable information to aid in our discovery and improvement of our own self-awareness. In this interview, you'll be introduced to fascinating scientific research about self-awareness and you'll end up being equipped with some very helpful tools to gauge and grow your own. Since research shows that 95% of people think that they're very self-aware but in reality, only 10% actually are, statistically speaking, you're probably going to want to listen to this episode.

 Tasha Eurich is a workplace psychologist, speaker, author, and principal of The Eurich Group. She helps organizations succeed by improving the effectiveness of their leaders and teams. She works with executives in Fortune 500 organizations and serves on the faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership. Her articles have appeared in several magazines and journals including Chief Learning Officer Magazine, The Journal of Business Psychology, and The Work Style Magazine. Her first book, Bankable Leadership: Happy People, Bottom-Line Results, and the Power to Deliver Both, was published in 2013.

Her latest book is called: Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life 

 In This Interview, Tasha Eurich and I Discuss...

• The Wolf Parable
• Her book, Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life 
• How self-awareness is the single most important but least examined determinate of success and failure
• The meta-skill of the 21st century
• That it took a year to review 800 studies and subsequently define self-awareness
• How self-awareness is made up of 2 types of knowledge of ourselves: internal self-awareness (how we see ourselves) and external self-awareness (how others see us)
• That 95% of people think that they're very self-aware but the research shows that we're not as self-aware as we think we are - about 10% actually are
• The 7 pillars of self-awareness:
• They understand their values
• They understand their passions
• They understand their aspirations
• They understand their "fit"
• They understand their patterns
• They understand their reactions (momentary reactions to the world, our strengths, and our weaknesses)
• They understand the impact they have on other people
• How to do an audit on the 7 pillars to determine your levels of self-awareness
• That a lot of us actually don't want to know the truth
• Braver but wiser
• 3 blind spots: Knowledge blindness, Emotion blindness, and Behavior blindness
• The cult of self
• Self-absorption vs self-awareness
• How it's easier to feel great about ourselves rather than taking the steps to actually become great
• Pairing self-awareness with self-acceptance
• The role of rumination
• Asking what instead of why
• The role of our past in self-awareness
• A daily check-in

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