I think that the word “self-aware” is being thrown around a lot these days. I know what many of you think.
Yeah, it can be difficult to get the word out in the right way. I think the word “aware” is often used as a synonym for self-aware. But that’s a mistake. It’s not self-aware if it’s unaware.
The key to getting the word out in the right way is to be aware of what you’re saying. You need to think about what you’re saying and what you’re saying is.
As with any discussion on the web, there is a lot of hyperbole and confusion. I don’t want to get into details here though. So, let me give you a few examples. You can say, “Well, I’m self-aware, but my wife is a self-aware bitch.” Or you can say, “My brother is a self-aware man, but I am a self-aware bitch.” That sort of thing is fine.
As far as the difference between self-aware and self-aware, I think it has to do with the fact that a person with self-awareness thinks about their own actions, but a person without self-awareness thinks about their own actions. In the latter case, they don’t even know what their actions is, so they can’t even say “well, I was self-aware enough to realize my actions were self-aware”.
But when a person has self-awareness, they are able to take a step back and think about the actions which cause them to be self-aware. In other words, they are in control, and they can decide to be self-aware.
The fact that we all have the ability to think about our actions. Thats not to say we have no control over our actions, but we are in control of when we decide to be self-aware. And now we can choose to be self-aware or not.
A person who has self-awareness chooses to be self-aware. However, this still leaves a lot of areas for the person who is not self-aware to be self-aware. In other words, not everyone has self-awareness (this is in general referred to as “dopamine-dependent self-awareness”). And not everyone is as self-aware as a person who has self-awareness.
Again, we are in control of when we decide to be self-aware or not. We decide to be self-aware by deciding to be aware of what we are. So this is not the same way as our habits, routines, impulses, and reactions. Which still makes us a person who has self-awareness.
When we have self-awareness, we are not as controlled by our habits, routines, impulses, and reactions. There is an awareness, and we are aware of what we are doing. We are aware of our motivations. We have our reasons. And we are aware of the consequences of our actions. But we are not in control of what we are doing.
