We don’t realise the effect we tend to have on other people
Without at all meaning to, we might come across as arrogant or cold, or as tending to crave attention or as needlessly or as getting furious in dangerous ways.
We may fall prey to unnecessary loneliness: not understanding what we really need and what makes us hard to get to know.
Difficulties of empathy: not acknowledging the more vulnerable or disturbed parts of oneself; means not seeing oneself as being ‘like’ other people in crucial ways.
It’s hard to understand the deeper bits of others without having explored oneself first
We’ll be prey to fashion: not knowing ourselves, we’ll be at the mercy of what consumer society tells us to want.
We might start liking things because others like them rather than for deeper personal reasons.
Now, if we are to exploit the independence and freedom we’ve been offered (in love, work and social lives), there is all the more reason to get to know ourselves in good time.
Thank You!
© The School of Life.
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