Knowing yourself is one of the great keys to living well and achieving personal development. Therefore, in this article we will see which are the main keys to improve self-knowledge .

How to improve self-knowledge

From the beginning of humanity we know that knowing oneself and giving a purpose to one’s life is what makes us live with meaning, well-being and fulfillment. However, we tend to live like automatons and without being aware of who we are, why we think the way we do, how we have created the needs we think we have, what we are afraid of or even what our purpose in life is.

Why is it so difficult to improve self-knowledge? Just as when you look in the mirror you see your face upside down, something similar happens with who you think you are . You see yourself thinking that your beliefs, needs or fears are real. However, you believe them to be real because you identify with them.

Therefore, we will now review several keys to improve your self-knowledge in order to discover who you are and what your life purpose is. In my case, I have discovered them during 10 years of experience accompanying people from up to 5 different countries to get to know each other better and discover their great purpose. This is what I have learned from all of them and from what you can apply in your life from to discover who you really are .

1. Forget who you think you are

The big mistake we make with our self-knowledge is to think we already know who we are. If you try to answer the question “who am I?” , you’ll find you can only answer it with identifications.

You think you’re a name, a nationality, a way of thinking, a profession, etc. But they’re just identifications and attributes. To know who you really are, you have to first forget everything you think you are now.

2. Don’t label yourself

To get to know yourself in depth you need to go deeper into each layer of your personality : from your environment, behaviour and attitudes, to your belief system, values and identity. To achieve this it is essential that you don’t label yourself or believe you are an A or B personality type.

The self-knowledge tools that give you a label are very misunderstood. These tools serve to keep you from identifying yourself, not to make you do it. Try not to identify yourself 100% through these tools or label yourself with anything.

3. Don’t let anyone tell you who you are or what your purpose is

If anyone gives you advice, guides you, directs you and tries to tell you who you are, they will only be lending you their ideas and beliefs .

Only you decide who you are and what your purpose is, and you achieve it if you start a process of deep self-knowledge where you free yourself from what you think you are and go on to build a new personality, more related to your essence and not to your ego (fictions created throughout your life about who you think you are).

4. Initiates a transpersonal process

Transpersonality means “beyond personality” and personality is a word that comes from Pessoa, from Latin, and means “mask”. Exactly, your personality is your mask , not who you really are. A transpersonal process is what will lead you to overcome your ego and discover your true purpose.

5. Answer the appropriate questions

The great tool for getting to know you is questions. However, it is a mistake for you to ask yourself those questions. You must answer them. In a process of self-knowledge and change an expert professional asks you the right questions .

6. Apply what you have learned to your life

It’s not just a matter of responding or reflecting, but of applying every change you discover in your life. Your new life will be built if you make it happen with different actions , not just with good intentions. This is the only way you can get to know yourself: by acting and discovering yourself.

7. Find the expert company

In the last 10 years, as I told you, I have accompanied people from up to 5 different countries to achieve changes in their lives and the personal development they deserved. I did it as a psychologist and coach, and in all those cases I discovered that self-knowledge was key.

That’s why I designed Know Yourself, a free self-knowledge program for you to take the first steps and answer the right questions. With the professional and expert company, which works like a mirror, that journey takes you inside with total security and ethics. You can find that program within Empoderamiento humano, the school of personal development that I run.

Improving your self-knowledge is a process that can take some time, but with the right company you can get to know yourself and discover your great purpose in life in about two months. It is a deep and very special process to which I invite you from now on, because it is you and your life that will change thanks to your own change.