Well, it ain't Shakespeare, but your pop-rocks/enema metaphor certainly did a job. And made me snarf.
Self-awareness is, IMO, the mother of all feckers (the word "feck" is Ireland's gift to the World!). The big problem with it, like Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns, is that if you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it!
Very true. How do you show someone that they aren't self-aware when they are currently not self-aware? Such a hard lesson to learn.
I really don't think you can, Chris. Know thyself, and let other people get there in their own time. I know that some never will.
I am a constant work in progress and that ebbs and flows!