For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
Transceivers transmit and receive, and we do too. “Transceiver bias” is my name for self-image distortions that arise from receiving information about how we’re doing while we’re preoccupied with transmitting information, that is, expressing ourselves. We’re often surprised by photographs of ourselves. They don’t look like what we see in the mirror. Part of this […]
Doctor: Bob, bad news. You’ve got cancer. Bob: Well, I’m going to want a second opinion. Doctor: All right, you’re ugly too. Joe: X is true. Sue: No it’s not. Joe: You just don’t want to admit it’s true because you’re stubborn. Sue: That’s not true. Joe: Yes it is. Sue: Don’t tell me what […]
“I can’t believe how closed-minded he is.” We might conclude that the person who says this is pretty open-minded. After all the more open-minded one is, the less one is able to believe how closed-minded other people can be, right? Not necessarily. For three reasons, it’s easier to detect others’ closed-mindedness than one’s own. First, […]
We arrive here on Earth with no packing slip, no spec sheet, no list of our resources, talents, and weaknesses. These we gradually get hints of by trial and error, often through other people’s observations. I loom over this ambiguously personal thing called my body. From above, I see it as though through a fish-eye […]
The idea of getting in touch with one’s true self has become a joke, mostly because people who pledged to do so back in the 1980s were too earnest, and, well, out of touch. Still, the joke runs deeper than laughing at old fads. There’s something fundamentally slapstick about even the most thoughtful search for […]
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