People often think of this as almost a trick question asked in job interviews, when people are asked to share three things they see as their strengths or three things they see as their weaknesses. People often think of this as a question that has some kind of right or wrong answer.

The idea of ​​having a realistic view of your abilities, of what you’re good at and what you’re not so good at is an important issue, but more importantly is the issue of judgment that can accompany it.

Self-judgment can prevent an individual from beginning the process of being able to realistically assess what they are good at and what they are not good at, what their strengths are or what their weaknesses are.

The fear is usually backed by an idea that if you are aware of what you are good at or not good at, then you are somehow stuck with that fact and will lose the freedom to pretend otherwise. In fact, the opposite is true.

If you have the freedom to listen to your heart and know what you are good at and what brings you to life as a person, you can actually focus on these things and not worry too much about what they bring you. down as a person and that you don’t feel bought into life by The idea of ​​honestly evaluating yourself as a person is not something that many people would willingly accept, unless they are forced to.

There is a good example of how this can work by looking at the process of how people who are alcoholics or addicts get sober and stay sober. The reality that most alcoholics get sober and stay sober tends to occur within the context of Alcoholics Anonymous, although there are other ways.

The work that people do on themselves, in a therapeutic/spiritual context, within Alcoholics Anonymous, is almost always focused on self-awareness and self-actualization.

The nature of therapeutic/spiritual work has little or nothing to do with alcohol itself. The acceptance of alcoholism as a disease brings with it the realization that part of the process of staying sober is reconciling the various distorted emotional impulses within an alcoholic that in some way fuel their need to drink.

While this is somewhat of an extreme example in a sense, there is a truth that applies to most people.

Part of the reality of this approach is the awareness or understanding that true freedom comes from self-awareness and self-knowledge. Self-awareness gives an individual a route to their own inner truth, their own inner world, and their own inner spirit that otherwise remains closed off and vulnerable to exploitation by other people.