Self-awareness is arguably the most lauded trait in all of contemporary leadership. Entire categories of coaching, assessment ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. We all have found ourselves in the middle of an argument with ...

Few traits are more celebrated than self-awareness, broadly defined as the ability to know or understand yourself. And yet, self-awareness is surprisingly rare. Perhaps this is why we worship and ...

Know thyself: Many have said this. Socrates—maybe you’ve heard of him? Though he seems to have gotten the phrase from the oracle at Apollo’s temple in Delphi, where it was chiseled into the stone ...

A recent paper in Current Opinion in Psychology by Thielmann and Burghart explores the limits of self-knowledge, why it matters, and how we can strengthen self-awareness. In this article, I discuss ...