The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
I believe it is true that one needs to reject the familiar first to gain an insight of self-knowledge. To learn about oneself, one needs to introspect one's past within oneself and comtemplate the purpose of life. It is vey unlikely that self-knowledge is possible only by understanding of trivial knowledge.
No one can deny that higher knowledge can be gained by indulging in worldly pleasures. Self-knowledge is a spiritual transformation that requires abandonement of exotic things around oneself. The search for self-knowledge requires perseverence search for enlightment and higher purpose of life. Very less people have chosen this path because people cannot give up their comfort for spiritual transition.
We can study the confirm from the biography of Gautm Buddha, who in search of enlightment, abandoned his everything and went for the search of higher purpose in life. He was a prince and was married who could have spent his life in royal pleasures but instead opted to forsake such pleasures to pursue self-knowledge. Such an act is not readily acceptable to the plebians. It shows an extent to which familiar things should be rejected to gain self-knowledge.
Also, it is obvious that only by rejecting familiar thins first, you can focus on more important things in life. If you cannot step out of your comfort zone, you are never even close to being enlightened with self-knowledge. And it is only a first step towards self-knowledge. As the proverb says, "A good begining is a task half completed", a step towards self-knowledge by rejecting the familiar is a task half accomplished in the pursuation of enlightment.
Thus, I would like to conclude that there is no doubt in accepting that the first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar. As the saying runs, "No pain, no gain", it is necessary that you forsake familiar things and focus on higher purpose to gain self-knowledge.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 152, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... about oneself, one needs to introspect ones past within oneself and comtemplate the...
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Line 2, column 300, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...htment and higher purpose of life. Very less people have chosen this path because pe...
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Line 3, column 14, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...for spiritual transition. We can study the confirm from the biography of Gautm Buddha, who...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, so, thus, no doubt, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1623.0 2235.4752809 73% => OK
No of words: 315.0 442.535393258 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15238095238 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.55969084622 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25304051815 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 215.323595506 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52380952381 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 704.065955056 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.7574489542 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.4705882353 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5294117647 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05882352941 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.431033544282 0.243740707755 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155071470658 0.0831039109588 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.146031191025 0.0758088955206 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.257125531668 0.150359130593 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126063644666 0.0667264976115 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 100.480337079 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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