Scientific Definition
The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
Plain-English Definition
The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
Feynman Explanation
Most leaders rate themselves high in self-awareness. Most are wrong, which proves the point.
Core Principle
The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
Mechanisms
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The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
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Strongly correlated with team performance and 360 review accuracy.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Most leaders rate themselves high in self-awareness. Most are wrong, which proves the point.
Examples
- First of Goleman's four EQ domains; the foundation everything else stands on.
- Strongly correlated with team performance and 360 review accuracy.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Daily reflection, blind feedback, journaling — three habits, compounded over years.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Daily reflection, blind feedback, journaling — three habits, compounded over years.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Thinking about one's own thinking.
Knowing what you know — and how confidently you know it.
Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
The NLP claim that the unconscious mind runs the body, stores memory, organizes patterns, and seeks to follow the directives it's given.
Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed — a micro-intervention to insert a gap between stimulus and response.
What an environment offers an actor for action — handles to grip, surfaces to sit on, paths to follow.
Reading micro-shifts in another person's state — breath, color, micro-expression — in real time.
What we wear influences how we think and perform.
Tools, notebooks, and trusted others are literally part of your cognitive system — not just aids to it.
Eye movements that loosely correlate with which representational system is active — visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
The brain's overnight cleaning system; clears metabolic waste during sleep.
The sense of the internal state of the body — heartbeat, hunger, tension.