Title: Self-awareness is the first step to personality development
Headings: 
1 Introduction to the importance of self-awareness
2 What is self-awareness?
Definition of self-awareness:
3 How to increase self-awareness – By observing oneself
4 How to increase self-awareness – Someone providing us with feedback or telling our mistake
5 How to increase self-awareness – Observing someone else’s mistake and then introspecting
6 Our dreams can also tell us about ourselves
7 In summary

Content: Most of us plod on through our daily lives not taking a moment to pause and introspect as to why we experienced that emotion in the first place. In fact, through such situations in one’s day-to-day life, one’s mind, by reacting negatively to situations and events opens up a window and gives one a vignette into its nature. If one is alert and objective in one’s outlook, one can follow the pathway through the window that the mind opens up. As a result, through this process one begins to gain greater self-awareness as to how one’s mind works and how it responds to various stimuli. This is known as metacognition, which means having awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes. This particular type of self-development pertains to becoming conscious of one’s own body and mental state of being including thoughts, actions, ideas, feelings and interactions with others. It is therefore the first step in overcoming negative emotions and reactions. A person generally responds negatively to situations and events due to impressions of personality defects in the sub-conscious mind. Let’s take an example. Annette felt restless when her boss praised her colleague.