The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
The recommendation unequivocally suggests that in order to know oneself better rejection of the familiar is of paramount importance. Nowadays, finding purpose in life has become very important as it helps people place themselves in the society. For this, knowing oneself to the fullest is required. People can live the life to its full potential only when they can understand themselves on a more granular level. Indisputably, in some cases rejection of the familiar is impractical and not recommended. Nevertheless, to live a good quality life understanding oneself is much needed.
What we are today and what we seek today is mostly shaped by the ideas or beliefs of the environment a person grows up in. From a very young age, a child learns from his mother about the world. Mother is the first teacher a baby has. Consequently, the child's knowledge of the world stems from his family. This mostly limits understanding oneself very well as the child is not given a chance to explore any ideas first. In many countries, the child is simply sent off to a school where he or she studies a curriculum set by the state or government. This blinkers the child outlook on the world and this leads to him or her having a narrow outlook on themselves. For instance, in India, there are at least 3,00,000 engineers who graduate every year. Most of them do not even like what they do since they have yielded to their parents' wishes. Most parents want their child to study in a good IIT college preferably in engineering to get a good job. This ultimately puts less importance on what the student wants to do with his life.
Rejecting the familiar self may help in many scenarios other than the formerly stated one. Many individuals have a self-worth which is based on what community thinks of them. For instance, if a girl is body shamed from childhood, she might have the idea that having a fat body is bad and it makes her life miserable. This phenomenon of basing one's self-worth on others view of them is further bolstered by the advent of technology such as Facebook. Consequently, in order to know oneself in a better way, it is good to reject the familiar in most of the cases. The Buddhist monks have an ascetic life in which they follow a very strict discipline in that they do not worry about mundane or worldly matters. They try to find their true self by meditating and praying to Buddha every day.
Admittedly, rejecting the familiar might not be good in some cases. Some people might have gained some very good knowledge about themselves. For instance, Mahatma Gandhi, a person who was instrumental in attaining India's Independence, had a very insightful perspective about himself and the people around him. Had he rejected the beliefs he had we might not see a free India today.
In conclusion, We are what the society makes of us in most cases. So, to find one's true self and attain true self-knowledge it is very important to reject the familiar.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'cases'' or 'case's'?
Suggestion: cases'; case's
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
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Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, if, look, may, nevertheless, so, well, at least, for instance, in conclusion, such as, in most cases, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2454.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74661508704 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73345116859 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493230174081 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 767.7 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.3001516871 60.3974514979 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 81.8 118.986275619 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2333333333 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53333333333 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205299854314 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582933409745 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0830493139256 0.0758088955206 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136231754403 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0776478219397 0.0667264976115 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 14.1392134831 68% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.97 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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