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Tennessee Williams once told us, there comes a time when you look into the mirror, and you realize that what you see is all you'll ever be. And then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. And speaking of mirrors, someone else once said, If we spend

too much time scrutinizing what's in our rearview mirror, we're certain to crash into a light post.

I've spent the last four years of my life studying people who look in mirrors, rear view and otherwise, in their search for self awareness. I've wanted to know what self awareness really is, where it comes from, why we need it, and how to get more of it. My research team surveyed quantitatively 1000s of people, we analyzed nearly 800 scientific studies. And we conducted dozens of in depth interviews with people who made dramatic improvements in their self awareness. Now, initially, we were actually so worried that we wouldn't find any of these people that we call them self awareness, unicorns. True. But thank goodness, we did find them.