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SKILL 6

Show Self-Awareness

Your self-awareness is the ability to understand and manage how your actions are perceived by others. Duval and Wicklund (1972) first proposed that self-awareness is actually made up of two parts. Internal self-awareness is your ability to understand your values, passions, and aspirations and how they align with your current surroundings, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. External self-awareness is how well you identify how others perceive you. Although both are important, individuals who have a strong external self-awareness are viewed as more empathetic, more effective, and more successful. Highly self-aware people ...

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