Description
Book SynopsisDiscover your true self and align your life journey around your core beliefs, values and perspective.
Designed as both a companion piece to the author''s previous book, The Power of Understanding People, and a stand-alone work, The Power of Understanding Yourself provides readers with a blueprint for examining their true purpose and approach to life and a map for achieving greater personal happiness, professional success and self-awareness.
It explores personal attributes related to interactive style, diving deeper into the concepts from the author''s previous book, provides exercises for exploring how to connect your current life status to a desired future state and encourages readers to engage in a deep exploration of their core values, beliefs, mission and vision to become their best self.
Find the key to self-discovery and personal development
Uncover your true purpose
Use helpful exercises to reveal the best you
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Part One: The Grape
Chapter 1: Metacognition: The Process of Evaluating “The Juice” 3
Metacognition versus Self-Awareness 4
Thinking About Our Thoughts 5
Choosing to Extract Me 8
Your Cognitive Schemas Make You Unique 9
Chapter 2: Locus of Control: You Are the Winemaker 13
Delusions, Control, and Disappointment 14
Finding Your Locus of Control 16
Chapter 3: Alignment: From Vine to Bottle 23
Inputs and Outputs 24
Horizontal Alignment 26
Chapter 4: Core Ideology: The Crush of Juice,Stems, Skins, and Seeds 31
Examining Inputs 34
Assessing Your Desired Outputs 36
Identifying Your Core Ideology 42
Vertical Alignment 47
Part Two: The Style
Chapter 5: What’s My Style? Shades of Me 51
Understanding Interactive Style 55
Chapter 6: Experts: It’s About the Process for Me 63
Meeting the Expert 64
The Behavioral Cues (or lack thereof) of Experts 65
An Expert Is a Wine’s Acidity 67
Chapter 7: Romantics: It’s About the People for Me 71
Meeting the Romantic 72
Putting Others’ Happiness before Your Own 73
Reframing Childhood Trials 74
A Romantic Is a Wine’s Sweetness 76
Chapter 8: Masterminds: It’s About the Possibilities for Me 79
Meeting the Mastermind 80
Breaking the Rule in Order to Follow the Rule 82
A Mastermind Is a Wine’s Fruit 86
Chapter 9: Warriors: It’s About the Pace and the Point for Me 89
Meeting the Warrior 90
No Room for Interesting Details 92
A Warrior Is a Wine’s Tannin 94
Part Three: The Balance
Chapter 10: Punching Down the Cap: The Pursuit of Balance 99
Finding the Right Balance 100
The Good and Bad of Stress 103
Chapter 11: Punching Down the Expert Style Influence on Me 107
Complementary Versus Contrasting Balance 110
An Expert with a Secondary Romantic (lowest score A column, next-lowest score B column) 111
An Expert with a Secondary Mastermind (lowest score A column, next-lowest score C column) 115
An Expert with a Secondary Warrior (lowest score A column, next-lowest score D column) 119
Extracting Me Worksheet 121
Chapter 12: Punching Down the Romantic Style Influence on Me 123
A Romantic with a Secondary Expert (lowest score B column, second-lowest score A column) 126
A Romantic with a Secondary Mastermind (lowest score B column, second-lowest score C column) 128
A Romantic with a Secondary Warrior (lowest score B column, second-lowest score D column) 131
Extracting Me Worksheet 134
Chapter 13: Punching Down the Mastermind Style Influence on Me 135
A Mastermind with a Secondary Expert (lowest score C column, next-lowest score A column) 138
A Mastermind with a Secondary Romantic (lowest score C column, next-lowest score B column) 142
A Mastermind with a Secondary Warrior (lowest score C column, next-lowest score D column) 143
Extracting Me Worksheet 147
Chapter 14: Punching Down the Warrior Style Influence on Me 149
A Warrior with a Secondary Expert (lowest score D column, next-lowest score A column) 152
A Warrior with a Secondary Romantic (lowest score D column, next-lowest score B column) 154
A Warrior with a Secondary Mastermind (lowest score D column, next-lowest score C column) 157
Extracting Me Worksheet 159
Chapter 15: An Example of Punching Down Your Own Style 161
Analyzing My Assessment 163
Part Four: The Vintage
Chapter 16: Veraison: The Evolution of Me 171
A Shift in Perspective 174
Holy !* 176
Identifying Your Veraison 180
Chapter 17: Age-Worthy: Maintaining the Best Me 183
Becoming Better with Age 184
An Endless Appetite for Learning 185
Civil Conversations for Understanding Different Perspectives 189
Aging Well Physically 193
A Plan for Greater Achievement 195
Epilogue: Uncorking Me 197
Extracting Me Worksheet 199
About the Author 209
Index 211
