Self-reflection is the habit of deliberately paying attention to your own thoughts, emotions, decisions, and behaviors. Let me share a typical example -
During your regular commute from work to home, you consider how the stress of your morning meeting might have lead to residual anger and a poor decision with your manager at the end of the day. As a result, you resolve to take time after future stressful meetings to decompress rather than jump right back into your workday.
Most of us are capable of self-reflection like this. We periodically reflect back on an event and how we handled it in hopes that we learn something from it and make better decisions in the future.
Let me share a story of how self-reflection has many ways to make decisions in future just based on the individual experiences in past or present.
There was a boy playing one day on the sea shore. There came a wave and took one of his slippers with it. He wrote on the sand, 'The sea is a thief'.
The same sea and another shore, fishermen caught a good catch of fish, and they wrote, 'The sea is our God, it feeds us.'
Another shore, a young boy dies and his mother writes on the sand, 'The sea is a murderer.'
And yet another shore, a poor old man finds a beautiful Pearl encased inside an oyster and he writes on the sand, 'The sea is a giver.'
And then all of a sudden there comes a huge wave that erases everything everyone wrote.
➥ MORAL: No matter what people said about it, the sea is at peace and harmony with it's own waves. It chooses when to rise and when to be calm.
Be that Sea!
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