Quotes About Self-awareness

She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. I'm trying to recognize when it's coming on, she says, so I can get out of the way or at least drop to the ground like you would when caught in the crossfire of a shootout. (233)

For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be sincere. How does the man (woman) apologize for the boy (girl)? (132)

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

You can keep mistakes from happening if you can identify the almost mistakes. This kind of changes how I view everything.

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

the people who already saw themselves as experts in the field would be least capable of original thought.

After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.

They actually spent time wondering how people who had been so sensationally right (i.e., they themselves) could preserve the capacity for diffidence and doubt and uncertainty that had enabled them to be right. The more sure you were of yourself and your judgment, the harder it was to find opportunities premised on the notion that you were, in the end, probably wrong. The

Daryl Morey] suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his mind well enough to mistrust it

He'd always been just the way he was, a person who was happier counting than feeling his way through life.

a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Everyone has a story they tell themselves about themselves. Even if they don't explicitly acknowledge it, their minds are at work retelling or editing or updating a narrative that explains or excuses why they have spent their time on earth as they have.

Danny sensed already that he was very like his mother and not at all like his father. His feelings about himself were complicated.

a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Much later, he heard Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, hold forth on seemingly every subject under the sun. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are." Once

The University of Michigan psychologist Dick Nisbett, after he'd met Amos, designed a one-line intelligence test: The sooner you figure out that Amos is smarter than you are, the smarter you are.

the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Confirmation bias is the most insidious because you don't even realize it is happening

I believe in God, but I'll never be nominated for saint

You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.