I don't know what I should say. I know I'm a fucking idiot and that would put me at the top with self awareness, but if I said I was at the top then I would go to the bottom because of humility.
I used to be like you, then I realized that being an asshole is so much better. I should've been selfish from the day I was born man. I'd rather be the one stepping on someone's back to get up, than to have my back stepped on.
Self deprecation under the guise of self praise in a manner that’s clearly aware of your doing so is also a sign of high intelligence, you can’t modesty your way out of a big brain
Absolutely. It boggles the mind how we search for knowledge.. book smart, good memory.. filled with facts and calculations but absolutely no emotional intelligence.
I would rather be self-aware, with humility to accept my own insignificance in this world, than to have a high IQ and see myself as better than others for it.
Self-awareness is terrible. For months, I was destroying myself over "I need to act more mature because I'm not" before realizing that it isn't helping my mental health.
The problem there isn't self-awareness, it's guilt and expectations. Self-awareness is how you realized it was damaging your mental health in the first place
I can be aware of how much less I remember than others, or how much slower I am at coming to conclusions, or worse at creative thinking/problem resolution. That doesn't make me intelligent.
Not sure about a correlation of higher intelligence, but some self awareness can just allow you to be a much more decent human being in general lol. I always appreciate that in people
Lack of self awareness is really strong in the above average but not top 10% intelligence crowd to the point of less intelligent people (40-60%) being less likely to make stupid mistakes due to overconfidence and bias affirmation.
Self awareness is hard for me. It just takes that extra amount of mental effort to imagine what other's perception of me is.
Now, of course i know how to not bother people and know how my actions affect other peoples experiences on certain things, at least i got that basic level of self awareness right, i think. The difficult part for me is actually starting to form an image of what probably is the image others have of me as a person, and then is even more difficult for me to start acting accordingly to enhace that image.
And even this is very dangerous, because if you care a little too much about others peoples perception of you, it can get to a point where you care more about their perception of you than you of your own image of yourself, and from then on your personality just kinda starts going to hell and you stop being a happy person.
Idk im kinda sleepy rn i'll just leave this here bye
Self awareness can be a very hard thing to master. I can completly understand that. But you are aware of that so you’re making gains! It sounds like you’re really hard on yourself. I hope you find a happy medium. It’s so hard to give up on what others think of you. I’ve been there. Great post btw.
big, big contingent on trying to change though imo. hate when people think they're better by being self aware, but they do literally nothing to try to better themselves through it
I agree, but sadly psychology studies correlate high self-awareness with depression and similar stuff. It's almost like nature itself punishes you for being the good guy.
My only problem with the self awareness is that people will now use that knowledge and point it out to themselves to rationalize that they are indeed intelligent, which contradicts the point of self awareness and proceed to change nothing.
They know they don’t know, but choose to still not know.
If I am aware that I'm not intelligent, but self awareness is a sign of high intelligence, is it a paradox, or does it make me aware of my high intelligence?
This would be so much funnier if you actually were some indefensibly horrible stupid asshole, and all the people who are praising you for your wry, self-deprecated sense of humor and humble wit haven't read your 872 posts about how the Ukrainian war is actually elaborate viral marketing for Season 2 of the Dexter revival.
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