The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

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The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.

I believe that a person who knows himself tends to be ahead in the human evolution race, We get to see new side of ourselves only when we are not in familiar situations.
Getting to know yourself is a long and tedious process. From being a child to full-grown adults, we have continuously been exposed to different things in our lifetime. Like going to school, giving exams, doing sports etc. For each of these things, we were not familiar with them at first. Only after trying these, would we realise if we like it or not. Any person only by trying out different things then realises what his passions are. They then go ahead and build their career with it. Knowing about what you like or not could not have come has the child not tried various things. And thus after this revelling discovery they can live a happy and content life.
Knowing about yourself not only helps in building a successful career but also help in choosing partners and building a long-term relationship. Knowing what you like or not like in a partner not only comes with self realisation of what you like but also being with different types of people in your lifetime help shape that opinion wildly. Bringing yourself to meet unfamiliar people, not only makes a person realise what they like but also what they despise and would want to change in a relationship.
Pushing your boundaries does tell you something about yourself. For example you have a fear of stage. But you love giving presentations. If you had not pushed yourself and put yourself in an unfamiliar position of giving presentations in small groups you would have never realised that about yourself. I am one of those people. I have agoraphobia but giving presentations is one of my passions which I discovered when one of my teachers asked me to give it a try. I gave it to a small group in the beginning and to my surprise I loved it. Till date I am still scared of being in big crowds but giving presentations just gives me an adrenaline rush and I would never have known this about myself had I not pushed myself despite my fear of crowds.
But that does not mean that you should keep on denying yourself any familiarity you have around. Once you know what your passions are what you like it is definitely good to keep them up. Human craves for constant in their life. That is very basic nature. Every human tends to settle in their life at some point or other. But what i would say is when you reach that point you should have known yourself completed and are happy in all senses.
So in the conclusion I would just say that having a familiar environment is good for a long run, but to know about your true self it is rather important to push your boundaries and try different things once a while. Who knows you might find a new passion knowingly unknowingly.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 24, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... relationship. Pushing your boundaries does tell you something about yourself. ...
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Line 4, column 466, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... my teachers asked me to give it a try. I gave it to a small group in the beginni...
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Line 5, column 97, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Once” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...urself any familiarity you have around. Once you know what your passions are what yo...
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Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
...r life at some point or other. But what i would say is when you reach that point ...
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Message: “Who” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... and try different things once a while. Who knows you might find a new passion know...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, so, still, then, thus, while, for example, you know

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 87.0 33.0505617978 263% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2302.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 509.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.52259332024 5.05705443957 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46915970831 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461689587426 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 706.5 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.8014685136 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.3793103448 118.986275619 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5517241379 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.51724137931 5.21951772744 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0445597576031 0.243740707755 18% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0126480642692 0.0831039109588 15% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0320316885186 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0317560701746 0.150359130593 21% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0218429465193 0.0667264976115 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.6 14.1392134831 61% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 48.8420337079 146% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 12.1743820225 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.64 12.1639044944 71% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.9 8.38706741573 82% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 100.480337079 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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