The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
It may be wise to question the familiar in order to understand the rationale behind it, but non-acceptance of familiar, irrespective of how valuable it is wouldn’t be a wise thing to do. This could be proved in context of life through wide variety of examples ranging from as large as Indian government to as specific as, Virat Kohli and AB Devillers – captains of India and South Africa international cricket team captains respectively.
Dr.B.R.Ambedkar while writing Indian constitution in 1950, made a reservation system accounting to the oppression of some groups of people by others before 1950. Reservations are made as part of the reparations to this oppression, which include SC (Scheduled castes), ST (Scheduled tribes, OBC(Other Backward Castes) and OC(Open Category). ST,SC being the most backward groups and OC being the thriving groups. This familiar system was still not rejected by present government, but questioned it, as what were the affects of this reform? They came to learn that some people from SC,ST,OBC became potent enough and hence are in no need of reservation. This lead to the change of tweak in the system, that is, a new criteria of income is made to avail the reservation facility. People coming under less than a particular income bracket can enjoy reservations. We can see from this that, for self-knowledge one don’t need to oppose the familiar, but could benefit deeply from questioning and getting the insights from the answers.
In addition to this, lets look at the individuals who rose to the occasion in their particular fields and become idols to the youth all over the world. Virat Kohli – Who showed precociousness in winning the Under-19 World cup for India as a captains, leading to a place in Indian senior team. He used to play the traditional cricket shots – cover drive, square cut picturesquely. He then, to his self-knowledge came to understand the importance of strength and added weight lifting to his fitness regime. This allowed him to get more power into the shots he plays and thrived even more and became the No.1 batsmen in the world. AB Devillers also comes in similar lines, who didn’t deny familiar and added his own shots to his armor to become a 360 degree player. From these examples we can see following familiar can only improve in one’s profession. Self-Knowledge is not related to the familiar in these phenomenons.
On contrary, let’s look at Jack ma - CEO of multi billion dollar company Alibaba. He questioned the familiar notion of people not trusting online payment. He then came to know the reason for the same and improved the security levels in online payments and became successful.This case as opposed to others examples, opposed the familiar and questioned in the process and made it right. In other terms one can say, he has set right the familiar with self-knowledge he gained from questioning the old familiar notion.
All in all, from the examples above one can’t blatantly disregard the familiar and gain self-knowledge. But, we can benefit from questioning the familiar as observed in the case of Indian constitution and Jack ma. In some particular scenarios one can benefit from just following the familiar and improve on top of it ,as we saw in the case of Virat Kohil and AB Devillers. Hence, self-knowledge has less to do with opposing the familiar, but more to do with questioning the familiar and gain from the insights.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'hence', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'while', 'in addition']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243531202435 0.240241500013 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.150684931507 0.157235817809 96% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0852359208524 0.0880659088768 97% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0334855403349 0.0497285424764 67% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0395738203957 0.0444667217837 89% => OK
Prepositions: 0.120243531202 0.12292977631 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0395738203957 0.0406280797675 97% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.93815265444 2.79330140395 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0395738203957 0.030933414821 128% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0989345509893 0.0997080785238 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0167427701674 0.0249443105267 67% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0106544901065 0.0148568991511 72% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3497.0 2732.02544248 128% => OK
No of words: 575.0 452.878318584 127% => OK
Chars per words: 6.08173913043 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89685180668 4.58838876751 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.353043478261 0.366273622748 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.262608695652 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.194782608696 0.200843997647 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.12347826087 0.132149295362 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93815265444 2.79330140395 105% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 219.290929204 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506086956522 0.48968727796 103% => OK
Word variations: 62.4114531218 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6194690265 126% => OK
Sentence length: 22.1153846154 23.380412469 95% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.0576079974 59.4972553346 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.5 141.124799967 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1153846154 23.380412469 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.423076923077 0.674092028746 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.21349557522 269% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 48.3762541806 51.4728631049 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.80272108844 1.64882698954 109% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.472034851021 0.391690518653 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.112531377923 0.123202303941 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0823247573741 0.077325440228 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.518052288036 0.547984918172 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.15846653854 0.149214159877 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.195173165203 0.161403998019 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113642980912 0.0892212321368 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.45857849826 0.385218514788 119% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.074453131882 0.0692045440612 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.351377658458 0.275328986314 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522928507026 0.0653680567796 80% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.4325221239 153% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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