Importance of Knowing Oneself

It helps us in our decision making: It helps us to decide properly in life. Thus if you identify how good you are in terms of numbers, you can decide to go into accounting as a career.

Appreciating other people: Knowing yourself helps you know your shortfalls, examples are impatience, bad temper, pride etc. This will help you understand other people with such possessions.

Knowing our weaknesses: When we identify our weaknesses i.e. what we are not very good at, this helps us to relate to others better. Our weakness can be pride, laziness, dishonesty etc.

Understand yourself: This tells us who we are and makes us able to accept ourselves. This helps other people believe in us when we understand and believe in ourselves.