The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
Self-knowledge is of crucial importance in the personal as well as world's development. The prompt suggests that the avoidance of commonplace things or ideas lead to the self-knowledge. The statement is a debatable one. So, in my opinion, I partly agree and partly disagree to with the author because of the following reasons.
To begin, Gautam Buddha's statements are followed by Buddhism and he is revered for his profound knowledge about the life. He was the prince of present day Lumbini, Nepal; had he wanted to live happy and pleasurable life, he wouldn't have been considered as the God. Rather, he choose to leave his kingdom and his family in order to have knowledge about his various curiosities. He meditated for long time under the Banayan tree and finally got enlightened by the knowledge. What we can get from his life story is: we cannot always get self-knowledge from the familiar things; but from the things that are far from the reach of any person- by spiritual means which requries alot of self denial and self discipline.
However, self-enlightment always don't need the rejection of the familiar. For instance, Issac Newton, one of the greatest scientist the world has ever known dwelled in the commanplace matters and discovered gravity. While he was sitting under the apple tree, an apple dropped in his head; inspite of eating it, he pondered the reason behind the phenomena. He studied the physics, and finally discovered gravity. He gained the knowledge not by rejecting the facts around him but by embracing them and cogitating around them.
Similarly, like Newton, we can take the example of the Albert Einstein. He has provided us various information that still intrigues the present day scientists. His theories are mostly related to the acceptance of the familiar objects, while some requires the lot of imagination rejecting the familiar matters.
In sum, self-knowledge can be obtained by various means and there is no way we can take a side as stated in the prompt above. Because of the aforementioned reasons, I am partly consonant with the author.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: wouldn't
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Suggestion: chooses
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Suggestion: don't
...ne. However, self-enlightment always dont need the rejection of the familiar. For...
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Suggestion:
...ge not by rejecting the facts around him but by embracing them and cogitating aro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, similarly, so, still, well, while, for instance, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1747.0 2235.4752809 78% => OK
No of words: 346.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04913294798 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88056930279 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.575144508671 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 704.065955056 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.3689320358 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.9473684211 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2105263158 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.31578947368 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.213896038781 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0631365717471 0.0831039109588 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819501111002 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117695161936 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0166957537535 0.0667264976115 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => 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: 12.01 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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