Taking a look at yourself is the issue. Self-introspection ought to include some variant of the question "Am I having enough fun". In answering this question, p

Taking a look at yourself is the issue. Self-introspection ought to include some variant of the question "Am I having enough fun". In answering this question, people take an empirical approach, looking at other results. If what you see of other is biased, that biases your answer to that question, and thus biases your introspection towards "I should be doing better".