Published Online:March 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Soft Skills
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJSS010324
Author Name:Michael Walton
Availability:YES
Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:13
The paper emphasizes the importance of self-understanding, which focuses on a person’s internal, inherent and intuitive drives and preoccupations, in contrast to self-awareness, which is concerned with a person’s external behavior. Five perspectives are introduced, which can be bolted together to provide an outline personalized ‘self-understanding’ framework. This would enable a person to have more insights on how and why they may make the decisions they do and exhibit the behavior they show to the external world.
The purpose of this paper is to consider how people seek to make more sense of the world around them. Enhancing self-understanding is the focus of the paper—rather than self-awareness—although the two overlap and so are useful bedfellows. But the emphasis will be on the internal dynamics shaping a person’s decisions as opposed to how people manage their external interactions and relationships.