self-awareness
Advocates need to be self-aware enough to know when they are not helping a situation.
He's also extremely self-aware and wants to live on his terms.
his touching, self-aware memoir of youthful cinephilia
She was so in touch with her feelings, so self-aware about the pain she was in.

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Examples of self-aware

self-aware
He held that individuals with flexible, resilient and self-aware personalities were most likely to benefit from reviewing their past through reminiscence.
Or just the vaguely self-aware auto-reinforcement that comes from deciding what to read and what not to read.
The brief autobiographical asides, which could be annoyingly self-aware in other hands, have a disarming frankness and simple beauty.
Humans report that they are consciously uncertain and reflexively self-aware as they produce these graphs.
Be self-aware and have a sense of self.
This now beckons towards the more self-aware modernist theatre that the music at this point seems intent on precluding.
To achieve these objectives a system must be aware of its internal state (self-aware) and current external operating conditions (environment-aware).
Popular educators are required, in addition, to be politically committed and self-aware.
It recognizes how "open" genetic programs, plus emergent properties of self-aware social intelligence, permit distinctively human kinds of personal development and normative culture.
Few of us are as self-aware of our motivations as we think we are.
Although ultimately unsuccessful, this social progressive challenge to the more traditional city beautiful practitioners led to 'the emergence of city planning as a self-aware field of public endeavor' (p. 246).
I claim only that statistically significant generalizations will mask some cases where authentically self-aware individuals' deliberate moral choices and interpersonal commitments permit them to overcome fitness-oriented temptations to be unfaithful.
It describes how a young boy from a comfortable middleclass family became self-aware not only as a scientist but as a caring citizen during a period of considerable social change.
While individuals surely need to know that they are not another individual, this does not mean they need to be self-aware in the rich sense that most humans are self-aware.
As made apparent through linguistic behaviour, man is self-aware and also possesses a higher level order of selfawareness in that he is aware that he is self-aware.
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