A review by lauren_dots
Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life by Tasha Eurich

5.0

Every human on earth needs to read this book(!!) since, as Dr Eurich explains, nearly every aspect of our life, from productivity to happiness, benefits from high self-awareness. Your friends, family, coworkers, fellow bus-goers, pets, etc will thank you for it.

So many self-help books are very ‘airy fairy’, as I like to call them, and give some good insights but are often dragged out into an acceptable book length without concrete, actionable information. Eurich’s book gets straight down to business using facts and real-life examples to help readers become more internally self-aware (knowing what you contribute and want to get out of the world), externally self-aware (know how others perceive you), and deal with the non-aware around us.

I would have given it 4.5 stars (the level/length of anecdotes gets a little tired by the end), but Eurich gives you several tools, reflection questions, etc to figure out *exactly* what YOU personally need to do to improve your self-awareness, which is what took it to 5 stars for me. She could have easily done a “join my 5.99/month club for more!” type of thing but makes all her resources free.

Thanks Tasha for making the world a better place, one ignorant busybody at a time!