Know Who You Are (Not)

Explore yourself

1. In three words, describe your personality.
2. List five of your most dominant interests.
3. Describe your character, including your virtues, vices, strengths, and weaknesses.
4. List the past four opportunities that opened doors for you. Who facilitated those opportunities?
5. In the coming year, what opportunities would you like to have open to you?
6. Who are the people with who you most often deal? List the greatest joy(s) and the greatest challenge(s) in dealing with them.
7. If you have a mentor, describe what you admire about your mentor. If you do not yet have a mentor, describe what qualities you’d like your mentor to have — qualities that you would like to emulate.
8. List the places where you have lived. What possibilities did each place offer you?
9. List the places where you have traveled to. You can list just the ones that had a clear effect on you or all of them. In each place, what changed in you as a result of your visit? What did visiting each place teach you?

Who You Are Not

There’s a lot in this speech by McConaughey. From 11:11 to 13:33 is a great thought about knowing who you are by first figuring out who you are not.