Quotes About Insight

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

I write to discover what I think

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowing.

Inviting our thoughts and feelings into awareness allows us to learn from them rather than be driven by them.

Simply put, reactivity cuts off seeing clearly.

Mindsight is a teachable skill at the heart of being empathic and insightful, moral and compassionate.

Rather than simply telling them what to do and demanding that they conform to your requests, you'll be giving them experiences that strengthen their executive functions and develop skills related to empathy, personal insight, and morality.

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being more open and letting go of judgment and anticipation expands our awareness of all the vicissitudes of life.

By wondering what our kids are trying to accomplish and by allowing them to explain a situation before we rush to judgment, we're able to gather actual data from their

Asking why, what, and how can help create an internal sense of clarity even in the face of external chaos.

stage, and what they are ultimately capable of. This is how we use our own mindsight skills to see the mind behind our children's behavior.

Explained most simply, mindsight is the ability to see our own mind, as well as the mind of another. It allows us to develop meaningful relationships while also maintaining a healthy and independent sense of self. When we ask our children to consider their own feelings (using personal insight) while also imagining how someone else might experience a particular situation (using empathy), we are helping them develop mindsight.

La observación es la capacidad de percibirnos a nosotros mismos mientras vivimos un suceso.

We don't simply react to their external actions, we tune in to the mind behind the behavior.

asking ourselves these three questions—why, what, and how

understand themselves, and to care for others. Balance. Resilience. Insight. Empathy.

To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.

The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul.

you know far less about yourself than you feel you do.

You know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.