The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
The way society has developed today, many people follow a general structure in their lives in order to be successful or rather contribute to the society. Although there are certain people who do believe that self knowledge can be acquired with the need of rejecting the familiar. I believe that one must reject the familiar in or to discover oneself.
Firstly, In today's day and time the society has built itself around few professions which are considered to be successful, which hold a special place in the "ladder of success". If one is a doctor, he would be considered a successful person but if one is a construction worker, he wouldn't be considered to be as successful as the doctor. Being an engineer has its perks in the society, great pay, big house, and in general a good life, but the society frowns when a child tries to pursue his passion for drawing," How will you support your family by doing this?" is said. In search of a better livelihood people have begun joining these professions without any general interest in it. You can see many examples where people first complete these stereotypical degrees and then find their true calling in some other field. We could consider the example of Chetan Bhagat, an Indian writer who completed his engineering and then got himself an MBA from one of the top universities in India but few years down the line found his true calling in writing. The dream of being successful, the pressure from the society to be a success, and the stereotype of only certain professions being the benchmark of success leads to people giving up on their dreams.
Furthermore, the journey of self knowledge cannot begin with the environment you are familiar with. You cannot be in a profession you hate and say that you are on a journey of discovering yourself. The pleasures of life that these professions provide us with, the comfort that it provides wouldn't allow one to sit back and think of whether what he is doing is what he always wanted to do? We see many people leaving their high paying jobs and going to spiritual places in order to find their true calling. One best and biggest example can be seen of Steve Jobs. He was studying arts in one of the biggest colleges in the world but never really knew what he wanted to do. He gave up everything he had in the US and made a journey to India. This abandoning of familiar allowed him to think about his priorities and what he really wanted to do, and we got Apple. One of the biggest companies in the world, which was brought to life on a journey of self discovery. Steve Jobs in multiple interviews, his auto biography and the recent biopic too, has stated the importance of this journey of discovery. The idea of using his talents as an artist to look develop beautiful looking computers rather than the grey boxes that existed back in the day was an idea that shook the world to its core.
Finally, we as individuals have built a bubble of protection for ourselves. One can't always say that it was society that didn't let someone pursue his/her dream. The dreaded term- self doubt is one of the major reasons why an individual does not pursue his or her dream. When a person doubts himself, he does not believe in the talent he possesses and rather settles for a mundane life. The question of 'What if?' always persists in his life. If he would have done some thing differently rather than being so unsure of his talent.
But does one really need to reject what is familiar in order to discover oneself. We could consider an example of a single mother on a train journey- J.K. Rowling. J.K. rowling was not the household name she today is rather she was having difficulties to meet ends and support her family. On one of her journey's in a train she came up with the idea of Harry Potter and the world of Hogwarts. There are multiple support groups that allow one to open up about themselves, but their efficiency is still debated.
Although there are certain points that do say that one would not have to leave the familiar in order to self discover. But the opposing views surpass this line of thinking. Hence, I do believe that one must reject the familiar in order to discover oneself.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'if', 'look', 'really', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'in general']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.210909090909 0.240241500013 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.181818181818 0.157235817809 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0666666666667 0.0880659088768 76% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0387878787879 0.0497285424764 78% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0787878787879 0.0444667217837 177% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.117575757576 0.12292977631 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0436363636364 0.0406280797675 107% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.52953742353 2.79330140395 91% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0315151515152 0.030933414821 102% => OK
Particles: 0.00363636363636 0.0016655270985 218% => OK
Determiners: 0.0957575757576 0.0997080785238 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0157575757576 0.0249443105267 63% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0230303030303 0.0148568991511 155% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4243.0 2732.02544248 155% => OK
No of words: 751.0 452.878318584 166% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64980026631 6.0361032391 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.23491921734 4.58838876751 114% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.314247669774 0.366273622748 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.225033288948 0.280924506359 80% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.138482023968 0.200843997647 69% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0825565912117 0.132149295362 62% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52953742353 2.79330140395 91% => OK
Unique words: 330.0 219.290929204 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.439414114514 0.48968727796 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 56.562821048 55.4138127331 102% => OK
How many sentences: 36.0 20.6194690265 175% => OK
Sentence length: 20.8611111111 23.380412469 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4870720526 59.4972553346 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.861111111 141.124799967 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8611111111 23.380412469 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.361111111111 0.674092028746 54% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 16.0 5.21349557522 307% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 43.3644400059 51.4728631049 84% => OK
Elegance: 1.24291497976 1.64882698954 75% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.434722390704 0.391690518653 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.100461166238 0.123202303941 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0750855541831 0.077325440228 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.464960607989 0.547984918172 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.138120500765 0.149214159877 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151730896956 0.161403998019 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.09888084234 0.0892212321368 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.385025025664 0.385218514788 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.103012247362 0.0692045440612 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293515091249 0.275328986314 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0628720320808 0.0653680567796 96% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.4325221239 182% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88274336283 205% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 17.0 7.22455752212 235% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.66592920354 164% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 28.0 13.5995575221 206% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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