The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

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The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

In today's age there are a plethora of opportunities that are provided to an individual to excel in a field. In order to make the most of these opportunities, a person must know his capabilities and interests. There are a lot of times, when we ourselves are not familiar with our strengths and weaknesses. We are not sure what we might be good at or excel in. Thus, it is of utmost importance that we have a 'self-knowledge' about ourselves.

The first step to self knowledge is certainly not the rejection of the familiar. There can be various incidents in our lives that hint what we might be good at. Consider for example, a person who is an avid planner, always plans outings with friends or organizes the cultural events held in college, could take up Project Management and Strategy Development in his life!! All that is required is we pick the hints of the cues, introspect and understand what is best suited for us.

If we reject what is familiar to us, we might just be lost and square one again. There are various incidents that govern the way we behave or respond to certain things. There is a need to find a link between the chain of events and what we might be good at. For example, a person who has been a professional pilot for over 10 years in his life, loves cooking as a hobby in his spare time. As he enjoys the culinary world so much, he introspects and understands that his main passion is life is to cook, and thus he embarks on a new journey to make a name in the culinary world. This wouldn't have happened, if we reject what is already familiar to us. The idea is to introspect and understand what makes us happy the most.

A happy person, will be satisfied in what he is doing and would love his work. This can only be achieved when a person, puts in effort and try and understand himself and follows the path that makes him happy. Identifying your passion through self knowledge is something that can bring you immense peace and satisfaction. So, the idea is to not reject what is already familiar as it can definitely act as a building block in discovering oneself and the interests of the person. Instead, it is to introspect and understand what your strengths are and build upon those to lead a happy and successful life.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 584, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...make a name in the culinary world. This wouldnt have happened, if we reject what is alr...
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Line 7, column 140, Rule ID: TRY_AND[1]
Message: "Try and" is common in colloquial speech, but "'try to'" is recommended for writing.
Suggestion: try to
...ieved when a person, puts in effort and try and understand himself and follows the path...
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'if', 'so', 'thus', 'for example']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.170353982301 0.240241500013 71% => OK
Verbs: 0.194690265487 0.157235817809 124% => OK
Adjectives: 0.070796460177 0.0880659088768 80% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0420353982301 0.0497285424764 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0818584070796 0.0444667217837 184% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0973451327434 0.12292977631 79% => OK
Participles: 0.0287610619469 0.0406280797675 71% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.63132077093 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0309734513274 0.030933414821 100% => OK
Particles: 0.00221238938053 0.0016655270985 133% => OK
Determiners: 0.0929203539823 0.0997080785238 93% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0265486725664 0.0249443105267 106% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0398230088496 0.0148568991511 268% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2258.0 2732.02544248 83% => OK
No of words: 413.0 452.878318584 91% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46731234867 6.0361032391 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.58838876751 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.261501210654 0.366273622748 71% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.205811138015 0.280924506359 73% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.145278450363 0.200843997647 72% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0992736077482 0.132149295362 75% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63132077093 2.79330140395 94% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 219.290929204 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498789346247 0.48968727796 102% => OK
Word variations: 55.1181960578 55.4138127331 99% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.6666666667 23.380412469 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6078017799 59.4972553346 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.523809524 141.124799967 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 23.380412469 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.238095238095 0.674092028746 35% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 40.2477804681 51.4728631049 78% => OK
Elegance: 0.930555555556 1.64882698954 56% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.397172043283 0.391690518653 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108491284134 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0643153640291 0.077325440228 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.491806969971 0.547984918172 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.100615836346 0.149214159877 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.162980940235 0.161403998019 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.185657867038 0.0892212321368 208% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.452769130279 0.385218514788 118% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0809262386975 0.0692045440612 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.297513759158 0.275328986314 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105025251141 0.0653680567796 161% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.4325221239 182% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88274336283 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 14.0 13.5995575221 103% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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