The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
There have been a debate on the initial step to self knowledge. Some believed that accepting the familiar is the very first step of self-knowledge while some other people argue that it is the opposite - rejecting the familiar. The recommendation presented in the prompt addresses this arguments. I mostly agree to the recommendation - self-knowledge begins with rejecting what is familiar with the following three reasons.
To begin with, acquiring knowledge require learning new things. In other words, there is no knowledge gained if one have not learnt something new, especially what you are not familiar with. For example, a university student who is studying mathematics may not be familiar with calculus, the student would need to accept the fact that there is need to devote time in learning the topic even though he is not familiar with the topic before. Another example is a farmer who is not familiar with mechanized method of farming. This farmer will not acquire such knowledge until he accept it with the fact that he is not familiar with the method. The two examples given above proves that in acquiring knowledge, the first thing to do is to accept the unfamiliar while you reject the familiar. This will give room to learning something new.
Furthermore, in other to be focus in gaining knowledge, what you are familiar with need to be rejected. Of course there are many things to learn. If someone who is gaining knowlege in his own, want to learn fast while focus,, then what he is familiar with need to be looked away from. For example, a statistician who is cognizant of probability theory needs to focus more on something else which he is not aware of, then this is what make him a learned statistician.
It will be unfair to neglet the fact that rejecting the familiar might lead to negleting important thing. For example, a key board player might think he is familiar with a particular key on the keyboard whereas it is just an assumption. By so doing, he lacks knowledge on that key just because he negleted it.
In conclusion, the very first stage of self-knowledge begins with rejection of the familiar bearing in mind that important once are not rejected.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 281, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ation presented in the prompt addresses this arguments. I mostly agree to the recomm...
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Line 2, column 575, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'accepts'.
Suggestion: accepts
...ill not acquire such knowledge until he accept it with the fact that he is not familia...
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Line 4, column 208, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to fast'
Suggestion: to fast
...ning knowlege in his own, want to learn fast while focus,, then what he is familiar ...
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Line 4, column 224, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive commas
Suggestion: ,
... his own, want to learn fast while focus,, then what he is familiar with need to b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, if, look, may, so, then, whereas, while, for example, in conclusion, of course, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 0.0 14.8657303371 0% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => 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: 1820.0 2235.4752809 81% => OK
No of words: 373.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87935656836 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75078526162 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 215.323595506 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474530831099 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 562.5 704.065955056 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.2813689798 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7894736842 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6315789474 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78947368421 5.21951772744 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.349663032021 0.243740707755 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12176228984 0.0831039109588 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130727733386 0.0758088955206 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251541642368 0.150359130593 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.174804407296 0.0667264976115 262% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.37 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 100.480337079 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.