What’s Self-Awareness? Growing emotionally, academically, and professionally from early ages and later in life is necessitated by the present-day world’s demands for strong social skills, emotional IQ, decision-making, deep thinking, and rethinking. Self-awareness, unlike other SEL competencies, has been taken on seriously because by nurturing self-awareness, we can identify our limitations and capabilities. Multiple self-awareness definitions testify to the inherent complexity of the construct. Because the self-awareness construct is hard to capture, measure, or detect, there is plenty of definitions for self-awareness depending on the field (ex. psychology vs. education) and the medium that presents the information (blogs vs. scientific articles vs. dictionary).  According to the APA Dictionary of Phycology, self-awareness is “self-focused attention…