Model: self-awareness onion
3 layers
- understand your own emotions
- why do I feel those emotions
- personal values & success metrics
(1) understand your own emotions
There is probably more work to be done on this level if you ever:
Why are you so angry?I AM NOT ANGRY!
Do you know what you feel?
Do you know in the moment?
Can you name the feeling?
How nuanced can you name it?
This is related to Model: 6 aspects of empathy's 2. Empathic Accuracy
(2) why do I feel those emotions
This is a whole other level.
And this is made extra difficult, because Model: emotions create thougths
And requires to dig past the thoughts generated by emotions, until you find what actually caused those emotions.
(3) personal values & success metrics
Why do I consider this as success / failure?
By what metric do I judge myself and those around me?
Do I value being a good friend?
Do I measure how good of a friend I am by the number of times a friend calls me for help?
What if my friend never calls me for help?
That means I am failing as a friend!
I should feel horrible.
I do feel horrible!
But is that a good metric?
There are multiple options for metrics:
- the number of times a friend calls me for help
- the number of visits I make per year
- the number of times I think about them
- how much I know about their personal life
- I am among the first to know about important things in their life
- how much fun we have when we're together
- how much I believe that if I needed them, they would be there for me
- ...
The author goes on to say that the healthiest metrics are things you can control.
So metrics about your own behaviour.