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None among us is truly complete It's consciousness that matters
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one of these facets, or part of it. A serious error after doing such work is assuming that I
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A widely used cognitive psychological tool, the Johari Window, reveals four ‘regions’:
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Yet the advantage is that we see more clearly how we are perceived, and importantly —
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Every one of us is a work in progress; some more ‘finished’ than others, it is true, yet
none among us truly complete.
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