Introspection

Introspection or self-observance is a very tricky monster, I spend a lot of time introspecting my current skill set to find where I am lacking and where I should be filling the gaps. Introspection is a great method in really finding out more about yourself. It can be the first step in reinventing yourself. We all have bad habits and most of us have a few customs we’ve grown up around and we don’t question their existence, instead we embrace them. But I believe we need to understand the reasoning and the consequences of every  habit we have. We are filled with other people’s ideas, perspectives, outlook, in general we are heavily fueled by societies defaults, which include our generation’s bias, media, friends, family, and superiors.

We are all very heavily mixed up..grabbing bits and pieces, each of us is a very unique mixture of various pieces of our own lives, we really need to go outside of ourselves, and look at our processes based on black and white definitions. The more you can minimize from your bad habit list, then the more successful you can be at any certain task. Learning from yourself by introspect allows you to see yourself from outside yourself metaphorically speaking, with this type of analysis you can continue to find your negative or less effective methods and take the next step in bettering the methods and/or cutting down on the negative parts.

We rarely realize what we are capable of, we rarely push ourselves after we get to a certain point to break barriers, we build all sorts of walls around ourselves and expect different results. These walls are the reason we quit, complain, and develop a bad outlook on success and us in the same context. The only way we can break these walls that we, ourselves and society, has built we most tear them down strategically. By being self-aware we can see the challenges in front of us and beat them by adequately approaching each problem and finding the most pragmatic solution. Introspection at it’s core is looking in at yourself and defining yourself,  in a race for success we tend to be our main competition, by using introspection we can find those visible or not-so-visible  kinks in our armor and assess them accordingly.