The Most Important Work Begins In Ourselves

How might we leverage our learnings about ourselves to more effectively understand and engage others?
I was surprised—but should not have been—to read in a 2018 piece from Harvard Business Review by Daniel Goleman and Michele Nevarez that three key questions to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence focus not on how we perceive others, but on how we perceive ourselves, starting with, What are the differences between how you see yourself and how others see you?
As is so often the case, the most important work begins with ourselves. We cannot effectively teach our students, inspire action, or have a meaningful impact in our communities if we don’t have a clear understanding of our own strengths, challenges, opportunities, and impediments. This is work we do with our students as we support their work to understand how they learn, set ambitious goals, reflect on their learning process, and grow through challenges. This is work we do with our teachers as they design, collaborate, implement, reflect, and iterate in preparing their lessons and assessments. This is work we do as an institution as we seek input to help us build on our strengths and address our challenges. How might we leverage our learnings about ourselves to more effectively understand and engage others?
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