How would you define self-knowledge? Why is it important to know what motivates us and our behavior?

Question

Can self-knowledge be disastrous? How do we know when we achieve self-knowledge?

Answer 1

Self-knowledge can only be disastrous if you are unwilling to change the "bad" parts of your personality. Self-knowledge means to understand every aspect of our personality, how we became who we are and to be willing to work to change what we can and become responsible for everything we think, say and do. Self-knowledge brings responsibility into our lives.

It is important to know what motivates us and our behavior so that we can grow as mature adults.

You will never stop learning as long as you are alive. To think that we have achieved complete self-knowledge would be to lie to ourselves. We would then become stagnant. Each day brings a little more light to self-knowledge, IF you are willing to take a good hard look at yourself and learn from what you have experienced.

Answer 2

Define Self Knowledge

Answer 3

Self Knowledge Definition

Answer 4

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How would you define self-knowledge? Why is it important to know what motivates us and our behavior?

Can self-knowledge be disastrous? How do we know when we achieve self-knowledge?

Answer 5

I will answer this with an example of my experience.

I was driving my car. Another car was there in front of me going very slowly. I sounded the horn (as it is a practice) to let me go, as I was in a hurry. There was no response, I sounded again and again and became impatient. The other driver went to a side a little as if he was giving the way and when I moved forward he came to the right and I had to stop the car. My car touched his car a little, no scratch nothing. We both got down and he started shouting at me in filthy language. I told him that he was at fault, but he did not care and continued to use the filthy language. I am not used to such language so I was upset and left. I was in a hurry. This incident was lingering in my mind all day.

Next day I sat in the pooja room, still with the incident in my mind and thinking that why God has punished me like this and so on. Then suddenly I started analysing the matter.

Whose is at fault me or him. Instead of sounding the horn, had I waited a little more time and as soon as there is way I should have moved. Why should I keep on sounding the horn. Why so impatience? That means my ego is overpowering me. So, I am at fault. So for my ego and impatience I was punished. Had I shown some patience and waited, I would not have been in such an embarrassing situation of my life. May God wanted me to know this. When I realised this I felt comfortable in my heart. Since then I was cautious and trying to be patient with people, while driving or talking or doing anything.

Knowing about my ego and impatience, I think is self-knowledge. It is not disastrous. It shows the correct path. You need not know about it seperately. It comes in to your mind automatically.

This is my feeling.

Answer 6

The first question is: WHAT is self knowledge? I believe this is the definition:



"...apprehension by a knowing subject of itself, of its conscious states, of other minds, of an external world, of universals, of values or of rational truths."



That being said, anything is possible. Why focus on "disaster"?

How do we know when we achieve this knowledge of self? Look again at the definition and ask:



"Do I know these thing, in general?" Then you can identify which particulars you know.

Answer 7

self-knowledge is just another way of saying

"spent ALOT of time thinking about myself."



i suppose it's a good thing because it allows you to sypathise with others

but can be dangerous if you start projecting your flaws and virtues onto others.