The greatest trap of the 21st century is believing you're 100% self-aware.

Most people are actually living on autopilot.

They wake up tired and reach for their phone right away. They scroll without thinking, already feeling drained before the day starts. They go through the same routine: shower, coffee, work, or school. Most of the day is just reacting, answering messages, doing tasks, and following the same habits.

They overthink and call it 'contemplation'. They worry and call it 'Preparation. They stressed and call it 'productivity'. And the worst part all of this happens, and you're not in a state of awareness, but completely unaware. Leo Gura said it best: when you're unaware, you're unaware that you're unaware.

You don’t stop to observe what you are doing.

Even if you do, it takes just a moment of distraction to go back to the autopilot routine. When you feel bored or stressed, you eat, scroll, or distract yourself. You overthink, imagine, judge others, and don't notice why you’re doing it because it just happens, and you call it 'Life'.

At night, you try to relax, but it’s mostly TV, games, or more scrolling. You say, “I’ll change tomorrow,” but tomorrow looks just like today. You wake up and forget what you did the day before, and you repeat the same routine again and again.

This isn't a normal lifestyle. It's distractions your mind has gotten used to.

Perhaps you’re even a little frustrated with yourself.

• Why can’t you stay consistent?

• Why do you keep repeating the same mistakes?

Deep down, it feels like no matter what you try, nothing will change.

You’ve tried reading books, listening to podcasts, and maybe even starting meditation or journaling. You get motivated for a while, but eventually you slip back into the same patterns of overthinking, reacting, and drifting through life on autopilot.

If you live on autopilot, and it forms one third of your life, and it kills your potential to build the other third, and you are sleep on the other third, there doesn’t seem to be a higher priority than to become self-aware of the way you think, feel, act, and discover a way to control what you do with your mind.

But it’s not that you’re broken. It’s that you’re mechanical.

Mechanical is being designed to stick to a programme in your mind so you can maintain something. This thing is your self-image. You are wired for survival. Not just physically and biologically, but mentally. It means the survival of your self-image. Everything you think, feel, and act is designed to maintain a certain form of identity.

Your identity is a web of beliefs, stories, and concepts that shape your sense of self.

It is why someone can love coffee and dislike tea, and vice versa. It shapes your entire personality, worldview, and how you interpret reality. Whatever you like or not, but your whole life is for the purpose of maintaining (survival) and keeping the same form of your self-image.

The worst part is your mind does not care if you're aware of it or not.

Your mind's main job is to maintain your self-image, whatever you choose to be, or adopt from your parents, society, and your environment. You're by default mechanical. You operate based on a script in your mind.

It took me years of pain to realize this.

I used to live without questioning what I do. I wake up, go to school, have fun with friends, go back home, go outside and have fun with friends again, back home, eat dinner, scroll til 2 am, pass out, and repeat.

Everything I did was not from a place of unawareness, but living without even questioning why I went to school, why I think this way, feel this way, why I always do the same stuff, why I am assigned to a routine I don't care about, go to school I don't care about, being shuush by a teacher that I don't care about, and eventually study topics I don't care about.

It sucks because literally living without self-awareness is the mother of all fu** ups.

But most people think they're aware, but no, you're mechanical by nature. Your mind tries to construct reality without you being aware, but makes it look like you're the one who is constructing reality.

As long as the goal of personal improvement is to become conscious, there doesn’t seem to be a higher priority than to build self-awareness.

But what exactly is self-awareness?

The Art Of Being Self-Aware

Self-awareness is the ability to go beyond the way you think, feel, and act. (Aka- going meta).

Meta means interpreting life from a higher consciousness. Think of it like you're watching your life, and it is inside a box where you have all your routines, thoughts, emotions, and everything is your reality. Think of it like you're sitting in a chair, observing your life and watching it like a TV show.

You become the observer. Not a slave to your mind, where it uses you.

Everything you think, feel, and act eventually becomes from you, the observer, not from the box wish is your mind's default programme. When you wake up, you'll notice your default thought arises with you. The thoughts about work, life, day-to-day tasks, your family, and everything you relate to.

You'll laugh because it's no longer driving your actions.

But now, you just observe them like they are not for you, and eventually, you go to the shower and start your day with the biggest win of your life. You win the mind battle. You'll feel in control. Every action stems from your want, not from an unconscious thought from your default script.

You're now in a full state of self-control.

You'll feel so light. You'll laugh a lot. Nothing will matter to you anymore because most of what you cared about was just something your self-image identified wth, wish you hadn't even chosen.

You're now inside the 1% club.

Where people here are the most self-aware. They walk slowly, talk slowly, have better posture, and an extreme aura from being self-aware. People will feel safe around you. People will reach out to you. People will start to look at you and smile. You become a magnet because you're no longer a slave to your mind.

You're now owning the space. Your energy covers the ear, and people can feel it.

Where 99% of people are stuck inside their heads. You're full of awareness, you become a light walking down the street. At work, everything around you will seem simple after being bad because you were stuck in overthinking and stress. Nature will slow down, you'll notice the beard, and you'll listen to the sounds of the ear.

You arereborn again.

Now, let's dive into the practical part.

The 3 Pillars of Self-Awareness

Pillar 1 — Awareness of Mind:

The first step in your self-awareness journey is to become aware of the way you think.

Your thoughts drive your emotions. Your emotions drive your actions. Your actions drive your thoughts. And the cycle repeats. If you can master your thoughts, you'll master your actions. But you must be willing to face them, because it is not easy to stop identifying with something you've been with your entire life, but it is possible.

Once you pass level (1), you become aware.

Pillar 2 — Awareness of Body

The second step in your self-awareness journey is to become aware of the way you feel.

Feelings are fuel for your living. Humans are emotional beings, not logical. We take actions based on the way we think, even if it is not good for us. People who are addicted to some form of action know it is bad for them, but the need for it will outweigh their logic and eventually drive them to it.

Once you pass level (1), you become awakened.

Pillar 3 — Awareness of Actions

The last - but hard one - is to become aware of the way you act.

After you have been living without observing your actions, even the simple ones like how you brush your teeth, how you walk, how you speak, and how you look at people when they talk to you. Your actions now happen automatically. You're no longer thinking about it. But once you become aware of the way you think, trust me, you'll solve all your problems because every problem is a form of action that leads to a problem.

Once you pass level (1), you become supernatural.

The best part is you don't need to master each step. You master all three and actually accelerate your self-awareness journey using the greatest habit of humankind (most don't do it).

The Best Practices to Build Self-Awareness

Meditation is the opposite of autopilot.

Most people think meditation is about sitting still, breathing slowly, and forcing the mind to be calm. That’s wrong. Meditation is not about controlling the mind, it’s about watching it. The moment you sit down and do nothing, you see the exact truth of your life: your mind is noisy, restless, and mechanical. And this is the whole point.

Meditation is not an escape from chaos, it’s the mirror that shows you the chaos.

At first, it feels uncomfortable. You sit down, close your eyes, and within seconds, thoughts rush in. You remember yesterday’s mistakes, tomorrow’s worries, your to-do list, random memories, conversations you should’ve had, and even songs stuck in your head.

The mechanical mind hates silence because silence threatens its existence.

So it distracts you. But if you keep sitting, if you refuse to run away, you start noticing something life-changing: you are not your thoughts. You are the one watching them. This is the real gift of meditation. You begin to see the script your mind runs on. Every story, every image, every worry that once felt so real starts looking like passing clouds. You can watch them, let them pass, and remain untouched.

The more you practice, the more distance you create between you and the noise.

And from this distance, self-awareness grows naturally. It’s not forced. It’s not something you try to “be.” It’s who you are when you stop identifying with every thought that comes and goes.

Meditation also trains your attention. Right now, your mind is scattered.

Scrolling, overthinking, worrying, reacting. But when you sit and breathe, you bring your attention back, over and over. Every time you notice a thought and return to the present moment, you are building the muscle of awareness. Just like lifting weights builds strength, meditation builds awareness. And once awareness grows strong, autopilot loses its grip. You stop reacting blindly. You stop living mechanically.

You act from choice, not from habit.

Meditation is not a hobby. It’s not something you do “when you have time.” It’s survival for your awareness. If you don’t train your mind, your mind will train you. If you don’t sit in silence, you’ll never hear what’s underneath the noise. And if you never build awareness, you’ll live the same script on repeat until your last day.

Meditation is how you wake up.

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