Even if we are not always consciously aware of it, an inner process takes place within us every day: namely, how we deal with our own resources. This may sound abstract at first, but it is actually quite simple.
Some of you are probably familiar with the Johari window - perhaps not the term, but the meaning is familiar to you.
The Johari window classifies personality and behavioral traits according to whether or not we are aware of them ourselves and/or our environment. This results in four groupings of precisely these characteristics.