From Self-Doubt to Self-Love: Objectivity of Self-Presence
Knowing oneself is difficult and made more so at a psychological level by emotional wounds sustained in the course of growing up and at an intellectual level by philosophical wounds sustained in the course of one’s education.
Flight from Experience 1: Observation Biases
The orientation of contemporary psychology is primarily to experience. However, biases exist that tempt us to be poor observers of our own experience. Here good observation means heightening conscious awareness of inner experience. In part, this means managing thoughts and expectations about what I should be feeling or what other people might feel or what I am expected to feel.
