Self Aware

A recurring annotation Kyle attaches to passages about honest self-assessment. In Becoming, he tags Michelle Obama’s line — “I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.” — with #Self-aware and #Self-Reflection, reading it as a model of holding a stable self-knowledge under outside criticism. In his notes on Munger’s USC commencement address, the same tag frames a sharper question about incentives: “Are you self-aware enough and incentivized to acknowledge when you might not be the best player to play?” — self-awareness as the willingness to recognize when to step aside.

Where this appears

• Becoming — tags Michelle Obama’s refusal to let one critic dislodge her self-knowledge as a model of self-awareness paired with Self-Reflection.
• Charlie Munger — USC Gould School of Law Commencement Address — Kyle’s note frames self-awareness as honestly acknowledging when you may not be the best person for a task, alongside the question of incentives.