The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
The statement suggests that one needs to reject the familiar in order to get on the path to truly know oneself. However, I think that rejecting the familiar is not necessary; one can, in fact, use the familiar settings to develop self-knowledge. Also, one can gain self-knowledge by observing our reactions with respect to our familiar surroundings and use this to draw patterns and understand them, thus leading to self-knowledge.
First, one can gain self-knowledge by observing how we react to the incidents which occur in our surroundings. If a particular incident takes place, one can consider what our instincts were: on analyzing those instincts and drawing patterns from a wide range of observations, we can learn more about ourselves. For example, I attend my college regularly, and there is one lecture I detest. The professor does not explain her points well and is often admonishes students if they do not complete the assigned work in class. However, I have noticed that I never feel sullen even after getting a scolding - this made me aware that I did not easily feel bad about getting scolded or punished. Thus, I learnt more about myself from a familiar setting. If I were to reject the familiar settings, I would never have observed this phenomenon and gained the corresponding self-knowledge.
Second, if a person is in an unfamiliar setting, he/she will spend more time learning about the unknown factors in their surroundings rather than learning about themselves. Thus, doing away with the familiar may lead to gaining knowledge about the surroundings itself rather than oneself. For example, a tourist visiting a unfamiliar country would want to see the monuments, historical places and enjoy local food rather than gaining self-knowledge. Thus, it can be said that unfamiliarity can reduce the chances of gaining self-knowledge, at least for some people.
It can be argued that being in a familiar setting can provide distractions; distractions can stop a person from looking inward into their minds and try to learn more about themselves. However, it must be noted that distractions will be there anyway, and any person who wants to gain self-knowledge must learn to ignore them. A person who gets easily distracted will not be able to gain self-knowledge irrespective of the conditions around him/her.
Thus, being in a familiar settings may enable a person to observe patterns in their behavior on encountering certain incidents. Also, unfamiliarity can enable a person to gain knowledge about the unknowns rather than about himself/herself. Thus, I think that rejection of familiarity cannot be considered as the first step to gaining self-knowledge; on the other hand, familiarity can be used to know more about oneself.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'anyway', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'at least', 'for example', 'i think', 'in fact', 'with respect to', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.169014084507 0.240241500013 70% => OK
Verbs: 0.199195171026 0.157235817809 127% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0704225352113 0.0880659088768 80% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0663983903421 0.0497285424764 134% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0704225352113 0.0444667217837 158% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.116700201207 0.12292977631 95% => OK
Participles: 0.0583501006036 0.0406280797675 144% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.11668629079 2.79330140395 112% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0382293762575 0.030933414821 124% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0784708249497 0.0997080785238 79% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0442655935614 0.0249443105267 177% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010060362173 0.0148568991511 68% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2788.0 2732.02544248 102% => OK
No of words: 446.0 452.878318584 98% => OK
Chars per words: 6.25112107623 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.356502242152 0.366273622748 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.280269058296 0.280924506359 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.215246636771 0.200843997647 107% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.130044843049 0.132149295362 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11668629079 2.79330140395 112% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 219.290929204 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502242152466 0.48968727796 103% => OK
Word variations: 57.0329021317 55.4138127331 103% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 22.3 23.380412469 95% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.8109969144 59.4972553346 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.4 141.124799967 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3 23.380412469 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.85 0.674092028746 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.21349557522 134% => OK
Readability: 50.3269058296 51.4728631049 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.02395209581 1.64882698954 62% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.472634414121 0.391690518653 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.145781316357 0.123202303941 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0966380173963 0.077325440228 125% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.511592895768 0.547984918172 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.14179338041 0.149214159877 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.176563140808 0.161403998019 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12104173374 0.0892212321368 136% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.327510609192 0.385218514788 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0597212519502 0.0692045440612 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.315220258143 0.275328986314 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839714404185 0.0653680567796 128% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.