CHAPTER 5
Emotional Self-Awareness
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
—RICHARD FEYNMAN, AMERICAN PHYSICIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE
“A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.”
—AUTHOR PETER MCARTHUR
Research has shown that greater emotional intelligence leads to increased fulfillment and success in life, and the journey begins within us. Unless we have first done this work on ourselves, we will be limited in our attempts to apply this work in the rest of our lives. Knowledge of our inner landscape helps us to realistically look ...
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