Quotes About Introspection

What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge. That state of knowledge, in turn, is some variation of "I'm not sure.

The secret is to make peace with walking around in a world where we recognize that we are not sure and that's okay. As we learn more about how our brains operate, we recognize that we don't perceive the world objectively. But our goal should be to try.

When we work toward belief calibration, we become less judgmental of ourselves.

Self-serving bias has immediate and obvious consequences for our ability to learn from experience.

We are all trying to defend ourselves against how we imagine other people are going to judge us.

It's like you have a KICK ME sign on your back when it comes to identifying inaccuracies in what you know and believe. You can't see the sign because your eyes can see only what's in front of you. No matter how fast you spin around, you just can't see yourself from the back. Someone keeps kicking you, it's getting irritating, and you can't figure out why, even though you can clearly see the KICK ME signs on everybody else.

The outside view disciplines the distortions that live in the inside view. That's why it's important to start with the outside view and anchor there, considering things like what's true of the world in general or the way someone else would view your situation.

If you want some examples, go back to the very first questions I asked you: What were your best and worst decisions of the last year? The point of having you write those down is that most people don't actually think much about their best and worst decisions. They usually start by thinking of their best and worst outcomes and work backward from there. That's due to resulting.

Seek out the outside view with an open mind. You'll be more likely to find out about the KICK ME sign on your back, the spinach in your teeth, and all the things you're having trouble seeing from your perspective. That will help you clear out the junk, which will improve your decisions.

Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

Felmenni a városba, álmodozni, maszturbálni és várakozni - így is össze lehet foglalni, mibÅ'l áll egy vidéken töltött kamaszkor.

Ni soumission ni consentement, seulement l'effarement du reel qui fait tout juste se dire "qu'est-ce qui m'arrive" ou "c'est a moi que ça arrive" sauf qu'il ny'a plus de moi en cette circonstance, ou ce n'est plus le meme deja.

The girl in the picture is not me, but neither is she a fictional creation. There is no one else in the world I know in such vast and inexhaustible detail

Porque por encima de todas las razones sociales y psicológicas que pueda encontrar a lo que viví, hay una de la cual estoy totalmente segura: esas cosas me ocurrieron para que diera cuenta de ellas. Y quizás el verdadero objetivo de mi cuerpo, mis sensaciones y mis pensamientos se conviertan en escritura, es decir, en algo inteligible y general, y que mi experiencia pase a disolverse completamente en la cabeza y en la vida de otros.

Aujourd'hui si noir (mais pensais-je le garder un an ?).

Je soupçonne cela aussi: est-ce qu'on a envie d'être assise sur un banc à gratter comme une écolière quand on a - même refoulée, niée - l'expérience sexuelle d'une femme?

Vraiment fait mon deuil de ce rêve, un homme intelligent, « solide », etc., avec qui je « construirais » (?) quelque chose. En dehors de l'écriture et des enfants, je suis incapable de rien construire.

Le temps passait lentement, il ne parlait pas beaucoup, sans que je puisse savoir pourquoi. Il est déjà parti dans sa tête, voilà tout.

E forse il vero scopo della mia vita è soltanto questo: che il mio corpo, le mie sensazioni e i miei pensieri diventino scrittura, qualcosa di intelligibile e di generale, la mia esistenza completamente dissolta nella testa e nella vita degli altri.

Moments de lucidité. Il est évident que S. en a marre de moi. Inversement : le 12 mai, sa passion pour moi était évidente.

Qué hacer de esta verdad: que soy nula, que no doy la talla en la vía en la que me he iniciado

Hvilke historier er det vi forteller om oss selv? Hvilke øyeblikk var det som endret vårt fundament? Ernaux tar oss med 60 år tilbake og forsøker å gi ord til hva en enkelt hendelse kan gjøre med en liv. Hun skriver sterkt om makt, skam og seksualitet, og opphever skillet mellom det private og det menneskelige.

Avant-hier soir, en me couchant : si S. est venu souvent ces derniers temps, ce n'est pas à cause de son départ, mais parce qu'une « autre maîtresse » était en vacances. Pensée aussitôt glaçante, qui remet tout en cause. Elle ne réussit pas, cependant, à devenir certitude, comme d'autres, parfois.

My whole story as a woman: going down a flight of stairs, and hanging back at each step.