The question then again is “What does that [self-awareness] do for you?” It’s like, “Yeah, yeah, I’m aware that I’m feeling anger at the moment. Whatever”. […] An[other] example is that if you have a lot of strong self-awareness, emotional awareness, the emotional awareness translates into self-assessment.
You get to know yourself a bit better. You get to know your resources. This is what I’m good at this is what I’m bad at. These are my strengths, these are my weaknesses. This is what I really like to do, this is what makes me happy, and so on. And the effect of that is that once you are able to figure out, quote on quote your “deepest values and motivations”, then you know what opportunities to look out for. That could change your life. For example, let’s say you are good at coding. So you know, “Writing code makes me happy”. […] You know that beyond writing code, something else makes me happy, which is connecting people. Just saying, just an example. If you discover that motivation in yourself, then when Google starts a project called Google+, what do you do ? It’s like, “Oh my God, this is what I want to work on. That is it!” If you did not have the insight, the opportunity would just come and go. However, because you had the insight, you catch the opportunity when it’s there. Therefore, you’re always successful. And then people will think you’re very lucky. I mean you’re lucky, but at the same time, you’re there to catch your opportunities and you’re able to catch opportunities because you have deep knowledge of self.