Internal Self-Awareness
Understanding your strengths, triggers, beliefs, habits, values, and blind spots.
Example: Noticing that during load-shedding chaos, you become more irritable—this is internal awareness.
MC01-Self-Awareness & Inner Growth
Lesson 2
MC01-Lesson 2: Types of Self-Awareness
Learning Outcome
Analyse how internal states influence choices in everyday work and life (Explore).
External Self-Awareness
Understanding how others experience you.
Example
Realising that you speak fast in meetings when nervous, making colleagues think you are dismissive.
Reflective Self-Awareness
Your “mirror”—the ability to pause, look back, and extract meaning.
The Identity Snapshot offers a reflective overview of the self, encompassing the Past Self—what has influenced me; the Present Self—who I am today; and the Future Self—who I am becoming.
It reminds us that identity is an evolving process rooted in growing awareness.
Present-Moment Awareness
Mindfulness—the ability to find peace in chaos, especially relevant in high-pressure workplaces with constant interruption.