The name itself gives away the meaning as knowing yourself. Actually, American developmental psychologist, Howard Gardner, states it as one kind of intelligence in his theory of multiple intelligences. Self awareness is knowing yourself that means knowing your strengths, weaknesses, emotions, motivation, beliefs, likes, dislikes, moods, impulses, pet peeves that means knowing your personality. I feel that it helps in making important decisions of your life easy: such as making friends, your work life, choosing life partner, and even every day choices we make everyday.

Psychologists say that our personalities grow as we grow older and that our personality develops maturity in the adolescent period, so I believe our Bangladeshi education system should change and allow students to pick their subjects of choice for their future professional life. The choice should be at the end of adolescence, and generally the adolescent period is 13 to 19. Present system in Bangladesh allows them to pick their subjects for professional course by 11th grade itself, but usually kids will be only 16 or 15. After that , there is no looking back on it; They cannot change their path even if they want to. I believe the system should be more flexible and should give a couple more years to choose their professional path. By that time they know themselves better because they know more about their passion, their skills, and the idea about the society they live in, so this self awareness gives a clear idea about themselves and allows them to choose the right path. Work is something we do for the rest of our lives, so if it is something we like, then it will be more pleasurable to do.

Usually most of the marriages in Bangladesh are arranged marriages. Such kind of marriage does not allow both of them to know each other's personality before marriage. Even what we call a "love marriage" in Bangladesh does not give much of an opportunity to know each other because dating is not socially acceptable in Bangladesh. Being able to understand ones own thoughts and behavior will help understand another person also. This ability- empathizing-helps build relationships. Psychologists believe our personalities develop completely by age 30 and we don't change much after that age. Which means that once you know about yourself you are set for life! So, my friends, know yourself and run your professional and personal lives happily and make them enjoyable.

Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them.

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