Knowing self
The topic suggests that this is once more a topic on self. Why do I dwell so much into the topic of self, you might ask? Well because as I have mentioned in my previous post (meeting self), to me knowing myself is more important than knowing any other people on earth. Does this sound very ego-centric to you? Well let me further justify for those who wish to hear a little more.
Knowing yourself allows you to know your strength and weakness. Knowing your strength allows you to shine and illuminate the life of people around you. Knowing your weakness restrain yourselves from bringing the worst in you, and hurting all those around you. Hence in retrospective, I feel that knowing self is not an ego-centric behavior but rather an invaluable knowledge so that you can bring more happiness to all those around you as you bring joy to others through your better self and restrain yourself from others by controlling the worse of your character. I hope I have provided some understanding till this point as I would proceed on to talk about the recent discovery of the benefit of knowing self.
I went to a seminar on branding 2 weeks ago and chance upon this book that talks about the different character of human being. The book carries a survey that let you determine what kind of character you belong to. Yes, I have done a lot of personality test and have known a fair bit of who I am. However this book has a more in-depth analysis of personality and luckily for me, a more thorough explanation of my personality as the author happen to be having the same personality as mine and decided to write more on that. You are going to be disappointed as I am not going to reveal my personality to you as I felt that if you are interested, you should discover about me yourself as good things doesn’t come cheap and don't even mention free! =P
What I will touch on is the benefit that I have gotten after knowing myself. I start to realize who I am and why I am so concern over certain issues that will usually get me into trouble with others. My strength seems to be my weakness and my weakness can be my strength if I know what they are and know how to restrain myself from it. After reading the book and knowing in more details who I am, I found a new energy in me. I felt that I have found the key to a lock that holds many chains which binds a treasure chest. In that chest after finding the key is another new found confidence in handling people as I know who I am and how I can bring the best in me in life.
In recent months, I seem to find out more about who I really am and feel that a person who knows who they are, know their mission on earth. When they know their value and purpose in life, they have more confidence and more energy in the things they do. They engage in activities that bring the best in them and they will not fail in these activities as they are natural champion in the arena- 立于不败之地.
A person who knows himself, values himself. When he values himself, he knows his net worth and start knowing what and who has not been appreciating him at his present worth. He stops cheapening himself and start loving himself more. Like a stock who rise when the net worth of a company rises, the demand for the person will also rise.
Why does knowing yourself appreciate your value? It is because you start to kick off your bad nature and illuminate your better self. You found new value and new confidence. Have you come across people who have that natural charm due to his compelling personality and confidence? I guess you might have chance upon people like this and maybe you don’t know why they are so charming although they are not exceptionally handsome. I feel that it is simply because the person knows his worth, value his worth and let others see what they are worth as they know themselves.
In my case, I don’t use to think that I am charming. However as the years go by and after knowing myself more, I start to find the better side of me that attracts people around me. I start building on this positive characteristic of myself and begin to love myself more and more. I feel that human is like a torch and need a battery in order to shine the light they are capable of emitting. This is analogous to a person who is charged with a battery of confidence when they know themselves, and is able to emit their charming light to others. And I realize that people who don’t know about themselves and keep denying their weakness tends not to love themselves. Escaping makes them foul the air around them with their weakness and blind the people around them from their strengths.
I hope I have illustrated the importance of knowing self to you as although you might not agree with me but I know I am living a better life each day as I continue unveiling myself to me. Although I still have many treasure chests that lays sealed, I shall continue to open more of them as I continue my adventure of knowing the most important person in life
- Mr James Tan Han Teck aka myself!!!
Know yourself and you will increase your worth
~ James Tan ~
Knowing yourself allows you to know your strength and weakness. Knowing your strength allows you to shine and illuminate the life of people around you. Knowing your weakness restrain yourselves from bringing the worst in you, and hurting all those around you. Hence in retrospective, I feel that knowing self is not an ego-centric behavior but rather an invaluable knowledge so that you can bring more happiness to all those around you as you bring joy to others through your better self and restrain yourself from others by controlling the worse of your character. I hope I have provided some understanding till this point as I would proceed on to talk about the recent discovery of the benefit of knowing self.
I went to a seminar on branding 2 weeks ago and chance upon this book that talks about the different character of human being. The book carries a survey that let you determine what kind of character you belong to. Yes, I have done a lot of personality test and have known a fair bit of who I am. However this book has a more in-depth analysis of personality and luckily for me, a more thorough explanation of my personality as the author happen to be having the same personality as mine and decided to write more on that. You are going to be disappointed as I am not going to reveal my personality to you as I felt that if you are interested, you should discover about me yourself as good things doesn’t come cheap and don't even mention free! =P
What I will touch on is the benefit that I have gotten after knowing myself. I start to realize who I am and why I am so concern over certain issues that will usually get me into trouble with others. My strength seems to be my weakness and my weakness can be my strength if I know what they are and know how to restrain myself from it. After reading the book and knowing in more details who I am, I found a new energy in me. I felt that I have found the key to a lock that holds many chains which binds a treasure chest. In that chest after finding the key is another new found confidence in handling people as I know who I am and how I can bring the best in me in life.
In recent months, I seem to find out more about who I really am and feel that a person who knows who they are, know their mission on earth. When they know their value and purpose in life, they have more confidence and more energy in the things they do. They engage in activities that bring the best in them and they will not fail in these activities as they are natural champion in the arena- 立于不败之地.
A person who knows himself, values himself. When he values himself, he knows his net worth and start knowing what and who has not been appreciating him at his present worth. He stops cheapening himself and start loving himself more. Like a stock who rise when the net worth of a company rises, the demand for the person will also rise.
Why does knowing yourself appreciate your value? It is because you start to kick off your bad nature and illuminate your better self. You found new value and new confidence. Have you come across people who have that natural charm due to his compelling personality and confidence? I guess you might have chance upon people like this and maybe you don’t know why they are so charming although they are not exceptionally handsome. I feel that it is simply because the person knows his worth, value his worth and let others see what they are worth as they know themselves.
In my case, I don’t use to think that I am charming. However as the years go by and after knowing myself more, I start to find the better side of me that attracts people around me. I start building on this positive characteristic of myself and begin to love myself more and more. I feel that human is like a torch and need a battery in order to shine the light they are capable of emitting. This is analogous to a person who is charged with a battery of confidence when they know themselves, and is able to emit their charming light to others. And I realize that people who don’t know about themselves and keep denying their weakness tends not to love themselves. Escaping makes them foul the air around them with their weakness and blind the people around them from their strengths.
I hope I have illustrated the importance of knowing self to you as although you might not agree with me but I know I am living a better life each day as I continue unveiling myself to me. Although I still have many treasure chests that lays sealed, I shall continue to open more of them as I continue my adventure of knowing the most important person in life
- Mr James Tan Han Teck aka myself!!!
Know yourself and you will increase your worth
~ James Tan ~
posted by James at 10:05 PM
1 Comments:
James,
That is another insightful entry. Thanks to you - I am now on a quest to know more about myself.
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