The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
Self-consciousness and self- knowledge have always been promulgated as the medium to reach apogee of success. Some people assert that familiarity can act as an impediment while ascending the ladder of self-knowledge. In my opinion it is true only upto an extent and amalgam of novel and familiar experiences play a crucial role to attain self knowledge. I have give below the three circumstances to support my view.
Firstly, knowledge of our surrounding keeps us aware of surrounding, and this attention act as a rudimentary step in attaining knowledge about one self. Take an example of ancient practice of mediation, it has been seen as the most effective technique for attaining awareness, as it teaches us to focus on our surrounding elements to such an extent that whenever an instance related to a familiar event passes through our mind - which can act as an obstacle in attaining self-awareness - our abounding familiarity to such elements of milieu suppresses such thoughts. This suppression of unwanted thoughts helps our mind to focus on present and look within ourselves free from of any disturbance. Thus a constant practice of making ourselves more aware of surrounding and our familiar thought process helps us to attaining exorbitant amount of self awareness which liquidates itself into self awareness.
Secondly, rejection of well known elements of our life creates a double identity of a person, and this makes a person indecisive by constantly struggling to keep 'familiar' out of context. Constantly fighting our mind to keep it out of past eventually becomes a very cumbersome tasks which makes a person performing such practices vulnerable to succumb back to an environment where the person person is being constantly dragged down by his banal acts. For instance - consider a person trying to reject all the pasts of his life at once and trying to assume a new life. Now, in performing such act that individual is basically trying to reject his old identity, but since the past identity and the current identity, which he wants to attain are basically reaping out of same body, therefore, it makes such person even more open to harm while taking even mundane decision. Thus in order to prevent ourselves from creating a double identity which confounds various aspects of our life, being familiar can actually act as a boon.
On the other hand, Since all the individual don't have the comparable past therefore rejection of familiarity that constantly haunts an individual day and night can be beneficial. This technique of rejection is applied many times by psychologist after carefully considering the person. Psychologist assert that in order to calm the mind of individual with a past which is filled with melancholy and sadness can have severe effects and only way to limit its effect is by forgetting the past as much as possible.
As we can see taking a side on such complex issue is not an easy task. Each side has its benefits and repercussions. Thus familiarity can be a boon or bane to attain the self knowledge depending
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for instance, in my opinion, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2557.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 506.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05335968379 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7428307748 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95011879921 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 808.2 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 89.6515878399 60.3974514979 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.578947368 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6315789474 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.94736842105 5.21951772744 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.226177640031 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0798200992359 0.0831039109588 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0774316319646 0.0758088955206 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132277523756 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544675148618 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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