What aspects of yourself do you believe you have to improve?

Here’s a look at some ways to build self-improvement into your daily routine and let go of negative thoughts about yourself.

• Cultivate gratitude.
• Greet everyone you meet.
• Try a digital detox.
• Use positive self-talk.
• Practice random acts of kindness.
• Eat at least one meal mindfully.
• Get enough sleep.
• Breathe consciously.

Do you know what you don’t know?

In fact, you will never know what you don’t know. There will always be gaps in your knowledge, places where you are absolutely clueless as to your ignorance. Too many people think of inexperience as something that only plagues young people, or people who are outside of their knowledge base.

What does it mean when you think you fully understand something?

It means you think you fully understand something that you actually don’t. We see this every day in buzz words. Though we often use these words, their meanings are usually unclear. They mask gaps in our knowledge, serving as placeholders that gloss concepts we don’t fully understand.

How do you discover the things you can’t explain?

To discover the things you can’t explain, take a lesson from teachers. When you instruct someone else, you have to fill the gaps in your own knowledge. But you don’t need to wait for the opportunity to teach someone else: Explain concepts to yourself as you learn them. Get in the habit of self-teaching.

Are there too many unknown unknowns?

But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” The last quote is a classic by Donald Rumsfeld. Donald Rumsfeld coined this phrase in response to questions about whether terrorism intelligence. There are too many unknowns, too many factors that we may not have yet considered.