The relentless ‘me’ focus of our lives misses a crucial step
The most important, and yet least examined, determinant of success or failure – at work and in life – is self-awareness. The ability to understand who we are, how others see us, and how we fit into the world.
Plato instructed us to “know thyself”, while psychologists have argued that this skill is at the core of human survival and advancement. For millions of years, the ancestors of Homo sapiens evolved painfully slowly. But as the neuroscientist VS Ramachandran explains in his book The Tell-Tale Brain, about 150,000 years ago there was an explosive development in the human brain where, among other things, we gained the ability to examine our own thoughts, feelings and behaviours, as well as to see things from another’s point of view. Not only did this transformation create the foundation for art, spiritual practices and language, it came with a survival advantage for our ancestors, who had to work together in order to survive.
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