Self Awareness
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
Founder's Journal 
the Knowledge Project 
My First Million 
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about Self Awareness, every show
Lieberman: Lack of self-awareness is one of the most dangerous founder traits
“Lack of self-awareness is one of the most dangerous traits in founders because when you don't have self-awareness you have tons of blind spots, and you don't know when to hire people or change course to uncover or fix those blind spots, and because at a pre-se…”
Andreessen: GPT's contradictory outputs prove it lacks self-awareness
“Here's my favorite example for why I know GPT is not self-aware. If you ask it if it's self-aware, and you ask it to elaborate on how it became self-aware, it will happily tell you. And by the way, if you ask it if, well, how it's going to feel if you turn it …”
Johnson: Human conscious self-awareness is an inadequate sensor for brain health
“Most people think that their self-awareness Is basically the sensor system that captures their brain. Like because I'm conscious and because I can feel when I have a headache, it basically is a robust enough sensor system to do it. And that's not correct. So m…”
Stutman: Glossing over personal negatives signals a lack of self-awareness and improvement
“Are they able to articulate and be as detailed on the negative as they are on the positive? Because that's a sign of self-awareness too. A lot of people can really get specific around their positives, but then gloss over their negatives, which means they're no…”
Maxwell: True self-awareness requires external feedback for blind spots
“When people talk about being self-aware, I always say, I don't think so. I think that we all have blind spots. I do. I have things that I don't see about myself, and that's why I need other people to come around who, you know, care for me, but want to see me o…”