The Importance Of Self-Knowledge

Giving a completely or partly form or appearance to something is called as change. Developing, growing or being older are several types of change. In these days, it can be clearly seem that everything changes fast. To illustrate, the nature is damaged, people are less healthy and living is more difficult. For living in this world happily and safely, one must know she should obey this world’s rules. While the world is changing, one should change herself at the same time with it. This is true; however, do individuals of the world know how they can change themselves? Websites which include questions and chat forums about change show that especially young generation does not know clearly how they can be different. Since these websites are fulfilled with teenagers who ask about the

One can learn the skills of change by watching two main strategies.

The first strategy for learning the skills of change is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is being aware of what one can do, how one can develop herself/himself or what her problem is about change. When self-knowledge is thought, two major types of self-knowledge should come to minds, which are self-knowledge about failure and self-knowledge about capacity or capability. The first type of self-knowledge teaches one why s/he cannot change herself/ himself. If one knows that she does not have ability for doing something such as, passing exams, remembering telephone numbers or cooking, she will understand and solve her problems about it. Changing oneself is similar to solving these problems. Firstly, one should know why she cannot change, then, she can do the necessary activities for change. To illustrate, when a fat girl wants to be fitter, she should know why she is fat, whether she is responsible for this situation or not, she could be eating too much meat or drinking too much coke