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Introspection

I have discovered that practising introspection works as a healthy way to recalibrate the mind in order to maximise progress in our endeavours. This works effectively because the very act of regularly looking within oneself becomes a time for the mind to cool off and to declutter. By creating conscious headspace, it becomes easier to realign the reasons for one's current list of priorities. This, in turn, helps to unveil a sense of lucidity for goal setting, and more importantly, system setting, which leads to a highly fruitful curve of productivity when successfully implemented. 

Reflecting and writing down our ambiguous thoughts does help clarify and flesh out the short-term purposes we hold. This is because introspection is more than just making time for goal setting and timetabling, it introduces a layer of 'questioning' (the process of dissecting the reasons driving personal thoughts and goals) in addition to 'doing' (the kinaesthetic act of completing a particular task). 

In this manner, we can organize disparity

Besides that, it also gives an opportunity for the mind to store and archive our accomplished goals and reevaluate/reaccess on long term plans and needs.  

We are creatures of habit (proof). When employed correctly, habits can benefit us. In the event where we feel as if we have already achieved a perfect routine, There is always room for improvement.

Do you have the insight into yourself? Be a person of deep water, look deeper. Introspect. What do you want? Why do you want to be a manager? Why do you want this? 
Get the head and heart aligned to invest. Put the logician to work. Get your output in journals. Don't just input and react. DOn't react instinctively anymore. Don't be a SIM. Be a SIM coordinator.
Timing education. You can't be effective if you didn't educate yourself out of the problem. You can't lose.
When you educate yourself, your reasons get stronger. 
Don't give fluffy reasons, get honest. Reasons get results. 

While it is true that the person with knowledge holds power, it should be noted that the one who gears knowledge into practicality reaps substantially more benefit. In accordance with the statement above, I found out through practice that enforcing daily habitual goals helps the mind to build endurance for the undertaking of heavier tasks, and thus enforcing significant mental growth. The recursion of challenge, whilst difficult to manage at first, will become a natural process integrated into the subconscious with the groove of time.

vast majority avoiding loss when comfortable with life and fighting furiously when survival requires them to do so.

WHAT IMPEDES OUR GOALS

Nigel Nicholson How Hardwired Is Human Behavior? (Harvard Business Review 1998)


https://hbr.org/1998/07/how-hardwired-is-human-behavior 


One of the central implications of dissociations between consciousness and meta-consciousness is that individuals, presumably including researchers, can misrepresent their experiences to themselves. Jack and Roepstorff assert, '...there is also a sense in which subjects simply cannot be wrong about their own experiential states.' Presumably they arrived at this conclusion by drawing on the seemingly self-evident quality of their own introspections, and assumed that it must equally apply to others. However, when we consider research on the topic, this conclusion seems less self-evident. If, for example, extensive introspection can cause people to make decisions that they later regret, then one very reasonable possibility is that the introspection caused them to 'lose touch with their feelings'. In short, empirical studies suggest that people can fail to appraise adequately (i.e. are wrong about) their own experiential states.

Another question in regards to the veracious accountability of introspection is if researchers lack the confidence in their own introspections and those of their participants, then how can it gain legitimacy? Three strategies are accountable: identifying behaviors that establish credibility, finding common ground that enables mutual understanding, and developing a trust that allows one to know when to give the benefit of the doubt. That is to say, that words are only meaningful if validated by one's actions; When people report strategies, feelings or beliefs, their behaviors must correspond with these statements if they are to be believed.[19


Schooler, Jonathan W. (2002). "Establishing a legitimate relationship with introspection". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6 (9): 371–372.

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(02)01970-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1364661302019708%3Fshowall%3Dtrue 


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12200175/



Even when their introspections are uninformative, people still give confident descriptions of their mental processes, being "unaware of their unawareness".[20] This phenomenon has been termed the introspection illusion and has been used to explain some cognitive biases[21] and belief in some paranormal phenomena.[22] When making judgements about themselves, subjects treat their own introspections as reliable, whereas they judge other people based on their behavior.[23] This can lead to illusions of superiority. For example, people generally see themselves as less conformist than others, and this seems to be because they do not introspect any urge to conform.[24] Another reliable finding is that people generally see themselves as less biased than everyone else, because they are not likely to introspect any biased thought processes.[23] These introspections are misleading, however, because biases work unconsciously.




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