12.11 What is self awareness?

With Rebecca Norton I explore just what self-awareness actually means, and its significance in many contexts - for instance interpersonal and developmental.

The definition of self awareness we work from is from Duval and Walduck: 'The ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards'.

So many ways to better understand this massively important topic, and this is but a start - part two follows, the focus of which is how to gain more self-awareness, and some of the key issues and challenges.