The Automatic Self: Internal Self-Awareness
Know Thyself: An Introduction to Self-Awareness • 10m
A crucial part of internal self-awareness is understanding our instinctive, emotional tendencies, and also the heuristics (decision-making shortcuts) and biases that influence our thoughts and actions. These things comprise our "automatic self" and can be difficult to change. But if we are aware of them, we can devise strategies for dealing with these tendencies even if we can't quite fix them.
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