So, I am on the topic of self-awareness. Many of us are aware that we know many things, but what we are not aware of is how much of that knowledge is self-learning and how much is what we are taught.
So when it comes to self-awareness, it is important to keep in mind that all of it is self-learning, just as the many things that we are taught are. But one thing that is self-learning is how to change our patterns of thought so that we don’t repeat them. The most common self-learning method is called “self-counseling.
Because you might be thinking that you have a very simple idea and you don’t know to what extent it’s true, you might be thinking “OK, I’ll try to learn how to think about this one.” You might want to take a moment to think about how to think about it and then put that thought to the test.
To learn how to think on your own: First, do your thinking, then give yourself a chance to think. Make your thinking self-conscious and your thoughts self-aware, and then take the time to think about how you think.
If you think it’s easy, it’s not. Try to make yourself think about this one thing, and then think about the other thing, and then think about the other thing. Because you can’t always have your thinking self-aware, which is a very big deal, you have to start thinking about how to think about it.
If you can’t think about it, then you can’t think. The way to think is to make it a habit to think about it. And it doesn’t have to be about something mundane, like a car. It can be about something like how to think about the future, or how to think about how to think.
This is quite a common problem with newbie marketers. They don’t have much self-awareness, and many of us have been taught that you can’t do anything without thinking about it first. A lot of our thinking is done automatically. But not our thinking about how to think, which is a much bigger problem. In order to think about something you have to make it a habit. Even if you’re just writing a sentence.
The problem comes when we think that every little decision on our own is our own. It really is. And this often leads us to make all sorts of decisions without thinking about them first. For example, if you decide to wear a new shirt, you dont think about it, you just pull it out of the closet and throw it on. But then you have a new shirt, you dont need to put it on, you just put it on. We are the problem with this.
A couple weeks ago I went to a conference. A fellow that I know from my business school days was the speaker at the conference. He had just recently joined a new startup and was working on something that he hoped would help him build an audience. The thing that he was working on was a way to get people to pay with Bitcoin. So he showed his audience an interface that he had built that used Bitcoin as the payment method.
While the concept of “invisible” Bitcoin is exciting, one could argue that it’s not a good idea to use a new cryptocurrency to transfer money, especially when the market is so volatile. If you read the forums about it, people are skeptical about this new cryptocurrency. I think there’s an argument to be made that Bitcoin is a currency that needs to be monitored more closely because it’s so new and volatile.