How can self-knowledge help my career?

I feel like a lot of the people that I met, especially earlier in my career, were people who were very hardworking but didn't necessarily have some sort of plan for themselves, if that makes sense. And I feel like that that comes with time. I feel like that comes with giving yourself that time to think, that time to understand what your intuition is telling you. I feel like it's, especially nowadays with social media and all the distractions and everything that's going on, I feel like we've lost that skill of really focusing on ourselves. It's not even about focusing around what's happening around us, but it's more around focusing on what's happening within us, that voice, that intuition.

And I feel like we've not given ourselves that breathing space, that time, to really understand what those intuitions tell us. And I feel like a lot of the people nowadays, I feel like they're not even aware that that exists. And this is the scary bit where you are stuck in this loop where your interactions with society, your news, everything that's around you is just sort of put in front of you and you're consuming exactly the same things that everybody else are consuming. And I think that also drives this lack of understanding of one's self in a way, which is leading to everybody acting in the same way, everybody doing the same things, everybody going for the same careers. I don't know, for me it's just a waste of potential.