tl;dr: Why study yourself? Because
You’re interesting because you’re complicated and you’re you.
You can convincingly ask people to adjust how they deal with you to your peculiarities.
You can learn how to improve yourself and thus accomplish your goals.
Fair summary?
Would you say that improved self awareness can help you accomplish your goals directly, without the self-modification discussed in reason #3? Something like: learn more about what makes you happy, then do that stuff. This seems like a bigger payoff than #2 to me, worthy of inclusion in any sales pitch for self-study.
This preparation sounds great. Thank you for taking such care with the writing, and with providing this introduction. The idea of thorough, regulated introspection is new to me, and I’m looking forward to hearing from somebody who’s put a lot of thought into it.
A site where people (1) do deep original thinking, then (2) spend considerable time and effort to write accessibly about it, and (3) refine the ideas through civil discussion: all of these things are so rare that the combination of them on this site makes it the best philosophy/discussion forum I’ve ever been a part of.