Enhancing self awareness

In I Am Just Like You, Bob Sutton mentions in the book Self-Insight that author David Dunning writes "...a host of studies show that one major impediment to self-awareness is that people see themselves as unique--usually as superior to others--when actually they are not... "

People would hold more accurate self-perceptions if they conceded that their psychology is not different from the the psychology of others, that their actions are molded by the same situational forces that govern the behavior of other people. In doing so, they could more readily learn from the experiences of others, using data about other people's outcomes to forecast their own.