The Key to Critical Self-Awareness

Know thyself is the most famous maxim of Greek philosophy, carved into stone on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. By this impossibly exacting standard, you don’t know yourself perfectly, and I don’t know myself either. We exist, you might say, in a fog of meta-ignorance: Not only do we not know ourselves; we don’t know we don’t know ourselves. In a nutshell, practice acting like a better person and you will actually start to become that person. But realistic, even negative, self-knowledge can be extremely liberating, even when it does not lead to growth and change.

The Key to Critical Self-Awareness

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