Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
Your seventh form of intelligence is 
intrapersonal
. This is the 
ability to be aware of yourself—who you are and who you are not.
With this intelligence, you know exactly what you want and what
you don’t want. You are capable of setting goals for yourself and
making plans for their accomplishment. People with high levels of
intrapersonal intelligence are good at introspection. They reflect on
how they are thinking and feeling. As a result of understanding
themselves better, they are more effective in dealing with others.
The greater your level of self-awareness, gained through thought
and introspection, the greater your level of 
self-understanding
. The
better you understand yourself and why you think and feel the way
you do, the greater will be your level of 
self-acceptance
. The more you
accept yourself as a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you
like and respect yourself. And the more you like yourself, the more
you like others and the more they like you. Intrapersonal intelligence
is very important to a happy and successful life, and you can develop
it with practice.
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