Some experts say self-awareness separates highly successful people from everyone else. London Business School professor Herminia Ibarra disagrees — here's why.
"I got a little tired of hearing so much about introspection as the solution for everything when, in fact, the only way we learn new behavior is by doing it,"Self-awareness can be useful in some instances, she says. It certainly can't hurt to understand what you're good at and where you need to improve, whether that's at work or anywhere else in your life.
"When you are focused introspectively, you are going to favor what you have past experience doing," Ibarra says. "But a lot of the stuff that we are being challenged to do , we have no past experience doing. They are new."Take the workplace as an example. If you really want to excel at your job, you need to do three important things, says Ibarra.
Second: Once you have a new set of priorities, reshape your network — the people with whom you regularly come into contact — to match. If part of your job involves social media, and you want to make it a priority, you could start creating new relationships with other social media professionals and high-profile online voices.
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