The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
Do we need to stay away from the familiar things to gain self-knowledge? The author believes so. The statement might seem plausible at the first glance as it talks about the first step to self-knowledge, but we cannot say exactly that rejecting the familiar things can ultimately lead to better self-education. Its indeed true that for gaining proper knowledge, we need to first understand ourselves. And, this comes from keeping ownself away from the details that are already around us. Doing this can help us develop our own understanding of the things we want to learn. But, still it is the facts and figures already already present around us that helps us develop the true sense of knowledge.
Firstly, do gain some sort of knowledge, we must have some sort of understanding of the surroundings. Like, what is going around us, in what sort of circumstances we are in, and what can we do to promote our knowledge in such situations. In many cases, the situation around us might be adverse like the impossibility of the experiments we are trying to conduct, which hinders our progress. In these situation, we cannot simply ignore the familiar facts in the blind hope of gaining self-knowledge. If we want to progress well in any field, and to be successful, the familiar things mentioned in the statement above can be of real help.
Similarly, the works that have been already done by somebody else helps in our independent research very often. We can see the results of the experiments performed by many pedantic people around us, and implement them in our own works. Should we rejected their findings, it could become difficult for us to reach the conclusion, and find the outcome. As for instance, famous scientists like Einstien and Newton might have developed their own self-knowledge and unique finding, but they are also more or less motivated by the facts already present around them. They also might not have been successful had they rejected everything present around them and worked in isolation.
One might argue that, the already present findings distracts us from conducting our independent research, and does not allow the burgeoning of new idead; it is true to some extent that we become doomed by the findings of others, and we will not be willing to discover something on our own. We can see the example of Lord Buddha who left his family and meditated in isolation to gain the true knowledge, in which he succeeded and many other monks who have also been successful to gain self-knowledge rejecting everything that come in their way.
In sum, although rejectiion of the familiar might be the first step to self-knowledge, it is not necessary to totally reject our surrounding to be truly learned. We can, indeed, gain self-knowledge acknowledging that facts present around us, which can be the source of our own motivation.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 613, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: already
... But, still it is the facts and figures already already present around us that helps us develop...
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Line 3, column 254, Rule ID: NOUN_AROUND_IT[1]
Message: Consider using 'the surrounding situation'?
Suggestion: the surrounding situation
...edge in such situations. In many cases, the situation around us might be adverse like the impossibility...
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Line 3, column 394, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this situation' or 'these situations'?
Suggestion: this situation; these situations
...conduct, which hinders our progress. In these situation, we cannot simply ignore the familiar f...
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Line 5, column 576, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ady present around them. They also might not have been successful had they reject...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, similarly, so, still, well, as for, for instance, sort of, in many cases, it is true, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2380.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 481.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94802494802 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87464723346 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471933471933 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 713.7 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.6852404848 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.333333333 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9047619048 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227294596952 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0782877321719 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106385973605 0.0758088955206 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159314625399 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0994072049503 0.0667264976115 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 100.480337079 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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