The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your p

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The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position

The author is of the opinion that in order to know about oneself, one needs to let go of everything familiar, that is leaving the security blanket and stepping into the unknown. I agree with the author in so far that to truly begin to know about ourselves, one needs to know what she isn't familiar with.
If you always have been living the same life for many years without any change and getting to accustom to new things, you are in a stable zone. Admittedly, this might work for some people, but until and unless you challenge yourselves with unknown situations, you might know your strengths and weakness. The things we learn about ourselves by doing things which are strikingly different from our routine might be far more useful to the path of one's self knowledge and complacent, than the mundane things.
Also, by rejecting the familiar and acknowledging the unknown, you might end up choosing a path that may prove to be much better than the one you were following before. For example, I had a friend who was an investment banker. He didn't know what he wanted to do, so simply followed his father and settled for a life which was familiar and stable.Though, he always loved photography, he never took a risk on it, until last year. He submitted his portfolio to a local artist, and landed an internship. It was risky for him, as he was leaving his well reputed job for an internship with a paltry stipend, but he had never been better and is learning so much about art and more ad more about himself. Thus, stepping into the unfamiliar may involve risks, but the payoffs are more than worth it.
People might argue that rejecting familiarity may not help discovery about one self; it might harm the thinking or could even have horrible effects, or may not help them in any way, and they simply end up losing on a good thing going on.They do state valid points, but this is the risk you have to take if you want to start self discovery.
In conclusion, I believe that in order to start truly knowing yourself, one needs to be able to experience different things, and this will only happen if the person tries to experience and enjoy the unknown things. After all, you never know what the unknown might bring.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'after all', 'for example', 'in conclusion']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.147392290249 0.240241500013 61% => OK
Verbs: 0.197278911565 0.157235817809 125% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0702947845805 0.0880659088768 80% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0589569160998 0.0497285424764 119% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0884353741497 0.0444667217837 199% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.111111111111 0.12292977631 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0430839002268 0.0406280797675 106% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.40564690166 2.79330140395 86% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0385487528345 0.030933414821 125% => OK
Particles: 0.00453514739229 0.0016655270985 272% => OK
Determiners: 0.0839002267574 0.0997080785238 84% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0294784580499 0.0249443105267 118% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0181405895692 0.0148568991511 122% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2215.0 2732.02544248 81% => OK
No of words: 399.0 452.878318584 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55137844612 6.0361032391 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.58838876751 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.265664160401 0.366273622748 73% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.200501253133 0.280924506359 71% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.132832080201 0.200843997647 66% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0852130325815 0.132149295362 64% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40564690166 2.79330140395 86% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 219.290929204 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531328320802 0.48968727796 109% => OK
Word variations: 59.6633493979 55.4138127331 108% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6194690265 68% => OK
Sentence length: 28.5 23.380412469 122% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.3173142677 59.4972553346 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.214285714 141.124799967 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5 23.380412469 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.714285714286 0.674092028746 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 48.5501253133 51.4728631049 94% => OK
Elegance: 0.875 1.64882698954 53% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.478320328448 0.391690518653 122% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.135763857967 0.123202303941 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0868639557906 0.077325440228 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.582829307649 0.547984918172 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.220267538037 0.149214159877 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.191345640632 0.161403998019 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0980917353641 0.0892212321368 110% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.238100530633 0.385218514788 62% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0435460042892 0.0692045440612 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.307431849357 0.275328986314 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0584619370593 0.0653680567796 89% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 13.5995575221 81% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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