I’ve found that in my interactions with people the amount of self-awareness I have can help me to communicate more effectively with others. For example, when I’m working I tend to be very short and succinct in my email communication. I tend to get to the point because I have a billion things to get done. That is me being self-aware of what I’m doing at work and it’s a good thing to understand that because that approach may not work well for everyone I work with. In fact, my tone and succinct approach may be seen as uncaring or aloof. It would be easy for me to try and explain what I’m trying to do as I’m pretty self-aware of what’s going on in my head but it also helps me to understand how it might be understood. One of the most important keys to being able to interact with other people is to have a degree of self-awareness about who you are and how you act. This process of self-awareness takes a great deal of reflection, asking other people questions about how they see you and what your personality is prone to do. There is a uniqueness to you but understanding your tendencies, your approach, your personality are such and important part of interacting that I would urge you to take some steps to understand your personality. If you are interested on having me help you do so I can do so with a small fee so let me know if that interests you. bryan@bryanaxtman.com