Your hopes about you cause you to misperceive, misjudge yourself
When you don’t understand you — you don’t know how to deal with you; You don’t know how to manage you;
Therefore you mismanage you;
You don’t capitalise on your strengths — because you’re too busy making up for your weaknesses
You don’t capitalise on your strengths — because your self-hopes and self-idealisations and self-demonizations preclude you from seeing what your strengths and weaknesses truly are
This is why self-knowledge is pivotal;
Know yourself before you know anything else
I’m afraid most men never find their talent
They never find their talent because they’re so busy with hopes and idealisations and demonizations and making up for weaknesses and inadequacies or tooting their own horn
Their search for talent and passion ends before it begun: under the weight of unending perceived expectations and obligations, from the youngest age, the unending influence of EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, on the poor impressionable individual,
Self-knowledge is pivotal;
Know yourself before you listen to anyone
Including yourself, and what you think you want, what you think you’re good at, what you think you’re worth, what you think you deserve…
Know yourself first