New Delhi, May 14 -- Carl Gustav Jung, born in Kesswil, Switzerland, in 1875, became one of the most influential psychologists and psychiatrists of the 20th century. He worked with Sigmund Freud before breaking away to develop analytical psychology, a school of thought centred on the unconscious, archetypes, dreams, symbols, personality types, and individuation. Britannica notes that Jung founded analytic psychology and developed concepts such as introversion, extraversion, archetypes, and the collective unconscious.

Jung's quote is a lesson in self-awareness. In business, "looking outside" means constantly chasing competitors, trends, dashboards, market signals, social validation, and external benchmarks. Those inputs matter, but they c...