By A lot of people are confused as to what it means to be self-aware. Some might call it self-doubt, self-discovery, self-awareness, self-reflection, or whatever other name you might want to give it. What I’m referring to is a person who is aware of who they are, what they’re capable of, and what they feel they are capable of.
Most people who call themselves self-aware have no idea what they mean by that. They just feel like they are. In reality, they don’t identify as “self-aware”, as much as most people who call themselves self-aware don’t believe they exist. Many people who call themselves self-aware have no idea what they mean by self-awareness. They just feel like they are.
Our definition of “self-aware” is a person who is aware of who he/she is, what he/she is capable of, and what he/she feels he/she is capable of. So if you believe you are self-aware, you are. Self-awareness is not a feeling. It is not a state of being. It is not an identity. It is a way of being.
It is not a feeling. It is not a state of being. It is not an identity. It is a way of being. We are made up of atoms and molecules and proteins. We are not made up of feelings. We are made up of thoughts.
Even then, there can be some who think that a person who is self-aware is a person who is only aware of his own feelings. This is not the case. We only have thoughts, feelings, and identities. We only have thoughts, feelings, and identities only because we are made up of atoms and molecules and molecules and proteins. We are not made up of feelings. We are made up of thoughts. We are made up of atoms and molecules and proteins.
So as I’ve said before, there are two types of people. There are those who think themselves to be self-aware, and there are those who think themselves to be only aware of themselves. But there is a third category of people who think themselves to be only aware of others. This group, the so-called “other-as-self-aware” category, is the one we encounter most often.
The other-as-self-aware category is made up of people who are aware of other people and think themselves to be only aware of other people. The people who make this category up are called “self-aware-others.” They are like the “smart-as-other” in “smart as a whip,” who’s able to put the smart into the other.
People who have been living with a self-awareness problem for a long time would probably have some of the above examples of self-awareness, but the opposite is also true. Some people who are aware of themselves as only seeing themselves, and thus cannot see the other, are so convinced that they think themselves to be only seeing their reflection.
This is a very tricky thing. We know we’re on autopilot because we seem to be unaware of all the things that we do and don’t do. We don’t realize that we’re watching TV, we don’t realize we’re driving, we don’t realize we’re eating, we don’t realize we’re drinking.
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