Understanding and developing yourself

Becoming increasingly self-aware and developing yourself requires commitment and, like a lot of skills, it is best learnt by doing. This section provides an overview of different ways to increase your self-awareness and discusses why it is important for both your studies and your employability. Being self-aware involves having a strong understanding of your personality, emotions, strengths, weaknesses, motivations and values, and recognising how they are interconnected and impact on your actions and interactions. Self-awareness enables you to better understand why you feel, behave, act and react the way you do, and at university and in the workplace having self-awareness will increase your ability to: