The first step to self knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
Throughout one's life we are fed with numerous amounts of information right from birth till death. Its up to one's capabilities to soak in the relevant information and gain knowledge about various fields. The author states that the first step to gain this self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar. I agree with the author's statement due to the following three reasons.
Firstly, as humans we tend to find our comfort zones in life and tend to work within them. We always seem to fear getting out of this zone due to the challenges we might face. Right from birth we tend to confine ourselves in this zone. For instance little children seem to enjoy and feel at home with a given set of people. Once the child is presented with a new environment with a different set of people it feels uneasy and fears getting into this new environment. A reccuring theme of this can be seen in the first few days of school, when the child is not willing to get into this new environment. As we develop in our lives our comfort zone gets bigger but still we are confined by it. Although we feel comfortable in it, this zones tends to restrict our abilities. Hence to gain more insights about the world and ourselves we much reject this familiar comfort zone and wander into unknown territories.
Secondly, the rejection of comfort zone tends to hurt in the short run, but in the long run it benefits humans.Suppose we surround ourselves with a certain set of people who never oppose our views or never point certain flaws in our character then we may never will grow. Rather suppose we involve ourselves with a variety of unfamiliar people, we gain to learn a lot. These people might help point certain flaws which we then can reflect on and improve on. This can only be achieved when we reject the familiar.
Thirdly, many people feel that they are happy with the familiar things that they have that they don't tend to learn more. For instance certain individuals might feel that knowing only a particular programming language and doing only certain kind of work is good, but in the long run this might hurt them. In this ever emerging field of technology nothing is permanent and hence soon their work may be obsolete. So unless they learn new thing and dwell outside the familiar skillset they cannot succeed.
Hence, sometimes familiar things help us and benefit us, one must reject these familiar thing to learn more and truly grow as humans. Unless they do this they can get stuck in this zone of familiar things and cannot escape it. Thus the rejection of familiar is indeed the first step to self knowledge.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... right from birth till death. Its up to ones capabilities to soak in the relevant in...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
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Suggestion: Suppose
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Message: The adverb 'never' is usually put between 'will' and 'grow'.
Suggestion: will never grow
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Suggestion: Rather,
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Suggestion: don't
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, for instance, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 64.0 33.0505617978 194% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2150.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 461.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66377440347 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41361399888 2.79657885939 86% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481561822126 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.4009313904 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.5833333333 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2083333333 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.04166666667 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193434572569 0.243740707755 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0807562673429 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.16787097018 0.0758088955206 221% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149050790349 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126204552578 0.0667264976115 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 14.1392134831 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 48.8420337079 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 12.1743820225 68% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.91 8.38706741573 82% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 100.480337079 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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Note: 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.