Insight: Why We Are Less Self-Aware Than We Think—and What to Do About It

by Tasha Eurich

APPENDIX D What Is Your Ideal Environment? Understanding where we fit—that is, the type of environment we require to be happy and engaged—is the fourth pillar of insight. Fit can help guide us in making major life decisions: what city to live in, what kind of life partner will fulfill us, what career or company will help us thrive, etc. Here are a few questions to help you understand your ideal environment: In the past, when have you performed at your best at work, and what were the characteristics of those settings? In school, what type of learning approach or classroom setting helps/helped you learn the most and the least? Have you ever left a job because the environment wasn’t a good fit for you? If so, what about it didn’t work for you? If you had to describe your ideal work environment, what would it be? What types of social situations and relationships tend to make you the happiest?