Sometimes used to mean, “a word or phrase which describes itself”, autology can also be defined as “the study of oneself”. We commonly seek out information about ourselves when it comes to our physical health – what familial conditions we may be prone to or which diet would work best for us – but it’s less common that we find ourselves seeking to understand the landscape which comprises our minds. Funny enough, the insights we may garner from our mental autology could be equally if not more powerful than those we derive from our physical autology.
Recall the last time you were physically ill – how was the onset of this illness correlated with your stress levels leading up to its imposition? How about your overall mental wellbeing and satisfaction with life? It’s no secret that there exist clear relationships among our mental, emotional, and physical health metrics, yet we tend to focus so intensely on the latter, we fail to tap into the potential lying within the former. By actively working to navigate our mental landscapes, might we further uncover insights that would help us better understand our physical landscapes as well? I’d assert a bolded, underlined, bright red YES.
It’s easy to write personality assessments off as a half-serious effort to better understand yourself, and there are many reasons we may view them as such – the most obvious being our innate confirmation biases. Of course we’d all like to think of ourselves as empathetic and natural leaders and flexible and analytical and the complete repertoire which lies within these, but the truth is: we can be anything, but we can’t be everything. Nonetheless, we may still find ourselves providing skewed responses to your typical personality assessments in favor of the person we wish to be. Whether subconscious or not, it’s no fact I’m willing to deny – we all do it. But in the same way that you may visit multiple physical doctors to get opinions on your recent stomach aches, why not apply that same philosophy to your mental and emotional counterparts?
Something all statisticians will tell you is that repeated trials reduce noise. No one likes noisy data. Noisy data shows you everything yet tells you nothing. There can always be outliers or data sets skewed by biases – whether knowingly or not – but one thing we can all agree on is that the more samples we have at our disposal, the more likely our data is to near its most accurate state. That’s why SpotlessMind has combined all of the industries’ most powerful and respected tools to build a comprehensive autology of you. An autology that will reveal why that one relationship issue follows you everywhere, what sort of role you need to feel fulfilled, and how you can best serve yourself in the long-run.
I’m a firm believer that nothing worth doing comes easily, and while we aim to streamline the process as much as possible for you via the integration of leading industry-standard tools with our LLM capabilities, we still need you to invest in yourself. Through committing to better serve and understand yourself, over time we will co-create the most expansive map of your mind known to date. So what are you waiting for?
