Episode #348: What Cobra Kai Teaches Us About Empathy - a podcast by Steve Glaveski

Self-awareness is a hot topic nowadays.

You can hardly open a business or psychology book without coming across numerous mentions of emotional intelligence, EQ or self-awareness.

The theory of objective self-awareness goes back to 1972, when it was published by Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund. Daniel Goleman’s definition of self-awareness, immortalized in his best-selling book Emotional Intelligence, simply puts it down to “knowing one’s internal states, preference, resources, and intuitions.”

I’ve written previously that we probably shouldn’t trust our intuitions, because they are a byproduct of evolutionary programming, genetics, fetal conditions, infancy and upbringing, past experience, microbiome activity and our current environment.

Given this, there is immense value in being self-aware. Knowing that a feeling in our gut willing us not to do something we really need to?—?like make an important presentation in front of a large audience?—?is really just evolutionary programming which is trying to mitigate our chances of being ostracised from our tribe so that we can survive. Perhaps that made sense thousands of years ago?—?when we relied upon our tribes for survival?—?but no so much today.

With self-awareness, we are better able to navigate the world without always falling victim to involuntary reactions that serve to sabotage us, rather than serve us.

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