In this episode, Scott Becker explores the ongoing journey of self-awareness, its impact on leadership, personal growth, and entrepreneurship.
Chapter 1: What is the evolution of self-awareness?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is the evolution of self-awareness. So here's the issue, and I think almost all of us deal with this, either business or personal capacity, is the different stages of self-awareness. And I sort of look at this as three different types of people.
Chapter 2: What are the different types of self-aware individuals?
There's one – there's those people that either you'd call them incredibly emotionally intelligent out of the womb or crazily self-aware out of the womb that have always sort of been self-aware of how they come across and how they impact others.
Then I'd say there's a second category, which I'd probably put myself into, where you're sort of this mix of self-aware, emotionally intelligent, but with plenty of flaws and plenty of challenges, where some days you're really aware of what you're coming across, and other days you're aware of it, but can't control yourself, even though you should. And then the third is the type of person...
Chapter 3: How can self-awareness affect personal and professional life?
I've come across plenty of these in my professional capacity that are really completely unselfaware of how they come across. And these might be people that are terrific lawyers or terrific people, but don't really understand how they're coming across and how they're dealing with others. They just totally sort of lack that genetic understanding of how they're hitting another person.
And I think that the goal in life is to be more self-aware versus less self-aware, but not so self-aware that you drive yourself crazy or so sensitive to it. So I'll give you an example. There are days, of course, where I wake up irritable or anxious and to be aware that you're in that spot and how you're going to come across to others.
Chapter 4: What is the goal of increasing self-awareness?
Or there's days where as an entrepreneur, we are so shamelessly promoting things and have to understand that sometimes when you get pushback or negativity on it, you have to then choose, can you continue to push forward even understanding that you're not coming across how you want to come across because you're trying to figure out how to sell something or develop a product, market, or fitness or something or not.
But it's a constant evolution of self-awareness and how you act in response to understanding your self-awareness, or are you just totally oblivious to it? Now, the flip side is some of the people that are totally oblivious to it end up being hyper-successful in life.
I remember we used to talk about people – I remember a young investment banker we used to work with, and we used to refer to that person as – is confident and stupid. And that confident and stupid thing might be a great way to go through life sometimes because the person was crazily confident in what they were doing, even though we all found the person to be very dumb.
But to our chagrin or positivity, that person became crazily successful. So it is what it is. But I do think this constant journey to self-awareness how you're coming across, how you're impacting others, how your talking impacts others, what you're saying, where your filter is, where it's not, where it should be, where it's not, are really constant things to learn and live by.
And I think many people that I see in life get better and better at this over time. Again, thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity Business Podcast. Today's discussion from one of our favorite people in the world, a best friend, is self-awareness, in the journey of self-awareness. Thank you so much for listening to the Becker Private Equity in Business podcast.
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