A new book shows how knowing yourself and developing self-awareness can help prevent procrastination

Great athletes, top performers, successful solopreneurs, and award-winning actors all have one thing in common: self-awareness. They know their strengths and build on them, and they recognise their weaknesses and work on them or ask for external help to mitigate them. The result is constant self-improvement. The better you know yourself, the more tools and resources you have at your disposal to be productive and achieve your targets. If you know why you struggle to do the things you want to and are aware of your blind spots, you are better equipped to take control and implement effective measures to help you reach your goals.

How well do you know yourself? My guess is not as well as you think. When I joined Apple as a Business Manager in 2012 in Hong Kong, I realised I didn’t know myself as well as I thought I did. As part of my onboarding journey, I had to do a self-assessment exercise. I was asked to pick sixty-nine competency cards from a thick pack, read each one and its detailed description, and sort them into three piles: skilled, unskilled, and neutral. It was part of the Korn Ferry Lominger assessment. Each card represented a...

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