How can I improve my self-knowledge?

I had more pragmatic things to consider such as, how do I pay my debts? How do I help out financially in my family? Things like that, thinking about, how do I make living? How do I gain skills? How do I make it into this world of work? But then once I had achieved some of those things, I came to do harder questions such as, what do I want to do? Which is a pretty daunting question, I think. I think it's one of these questions that when you start pulling at it, it starts to unravel a lot of things, and is to do with really what motivates you. And I remember around that time, I wrote this whole article for myself on what motivates me, what's intrinsic motivation versus extrinsic motivation? And why do I do things?

And this then took me into understanding things such as the difference between your experiencing self versus your reflective self, the things that you do because they feel good and they're satisfying in and of themselves and the things that you do because of the outcome. And so, yeah, I would say it was a holistic process of getting to know myself and getting to know what was available.