The title of this blog post is “The Three Levels of Self-Awareness?” I’ve been thinking about this one for awhile. How do you feel about your own self-awareness? Do you know who you are at your core, and what kind of person you want to be? I’m not talking about your inner-child personality, I’m talking about who you are as a person.
The most obvious people in the world are the people who give you a fair and honest opinion of your own mind, but they also have a lot of personal issues and concerns that are personal to you. For example, the average person can have a hard time doing a good job of understanding why you’re on Deathloop. You just think you’re doing nothing, you really don’t know, and you’re probably not being honest.
We have no idea what this means, but let’s try it for a moment.
Its like a huge personal failure, but also like a public failure. It’s like, I know why I was on Deathloop. I was there to be on Deathloop. I was there for what it was for. But I didn’t make it to be on Deathloop. I could have, but I chose to be elsewhere.
If you don’t know why you’re on Deathloop, the only way to find out is to ask random people. A few years ago we had a guest on the show who brought up a great example of the kinds of things we were talking about. He had a very unique way of phrasing the question.
The other day I was on the show and there was the one about the security guy who had a personal-failure, and not only was he a security guy but he was also very arrogant. He literally went off and shot everyone in his face. I can’t imagine what the response would be to the show, but then again, that’s not the only way to find out.
So, if you’re curious, our guest was the CEO of Random Casino, an online casino. For our show, we asked him to talk about his casino in the same way I did about the security guy. He talked about the fact that he has a personal-failure and is trying to make himself look good.
Apparently, the casino CEO actually went to the very top of the corporate ladder (the CEO of a casino) to talk a bit about his personal-failure and how he’s trying to get himself back to where he once was. Random Casino is currently in bankruptcy. This is really the only reason why it’s worth watching the show. There are a few of these “big time executives” on TV now and most of the interviews are about their personal failures in the job.
This is a good example of the “failure” we see in our culture as we try to become ever more successful. These types of failures are great examples of how we fail to recognize our own failures, because the people who suffer the most from self-doubt are the ones who most often make it to the top of the corporate ladder.
The problem is when you try to become successful you don’t realize that you’ve failed until it’s too late. Just as there is a time when you realize that you’ve failed to make it to the top of the corporate ladder, so there’s a time when you realize that you’ve failed to recognize your own failures. When you recognize that you’ve failed to live your life as a successful person, you can choose to live it life in the ways that are best for you.
