Self-knowledge

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

IF ALL YOU HAVE TIME FOR IS ACTION, START YOUR ACHIEVEMENT - DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WITH THESE 3 JOBS

JOB 1: Spend 1 min per day in quiet silence just feeling the pull of your in-breath and the relaxed release of the out-breath.

JOB 2: Engage in a form of dialogue that is outside of your normal work - paint if you are a scientist - study a science if you are an artist - dance if you are normally desk-bound.

JOB 3: Help someone you lead, or care for, in their self-understanding. Ask gentle questions, "Do you feel that you are doing this because...." i.e. work to avoid being judgmental and prescriptive.

Some theory in a nutshell:

1) "The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC)

2) "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." --Confucian saying