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Disagree. Some people are less self-aware than others. It's not a matter of opinions or what you believe in, it's a matter of how much you are aware of your own

Disagree. Some people are less self-aware than others. It's not a matter of opinions or what you believe in, it's a matter of how much you are aware of your own cognition. There are many people out there who seem to lack the ability to analyze the consequences of their behavior, or to admit that they were ever wrong. There are also people who seem to be very bad at understanding what are their motivations for doing certain things. Not being able to look back at your own behavior and your own mistakes makes it nearly impossible for these people to grow. I won't get into the argument as to whether these differences in self-awareness are biological in origin or due to nurture. It's probably some of both. Either way, even though this metric is multidimensional and hard to quantify, some people are definitely less self-aware than others. Just like some people are less physically fit than others.

ifyoubuildit 5y ago
How do you distinguish between the case where these people are actually less self aware vs being roughly just as self aware but having different values from your own? In other words, they are aware of much of what everyone around them is aware, they just act on it differently? In any case, the vast majority of healthy humans are probably more self aware than the vast majority of healthy crows, no?
edgyquant 5y ago
You seem to think these people stupid instead of stubborn humans who don’t care about what your definition of “self aware” is. I’m sure these people think your way of thinking is odd as well.
- snek_case 5y ago
  I think it's similar to short term reward vs delayed gratification (see the marshmallow experiment[0]). By refusing to admit you've ever made mistakes, you can protect your ego in the short term. However, you're also alienating people and preventing learning from taking place. That has a long-term cost in terms of missed or lost opportunities. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...

ifyoubuildit 5y ago

How do you distinguish between the case where these people are actually less self aware vs being roughly just as self aware but having different values from your own? In other words, they are aware of much of what everyone around them is aware, they just act on it differently? In any case, the vast majority of healthy humans are probably more self aware than the vast majority of healthy crows, no?

edgyquant 5y ago

You seem to think these people stupid instead of stubborn humans who don’t care about what your definition of “self aware” is. I’m sure these people think your way of thinking is odd as well.

snek_case 5y ago
I think it's similar to short term reward vs delayed gratification (see the marshmallow experiment[0]). By refusing to admit you've ever made mistakes, you can protect your ego in the short term. However, you're also alienating people and preventing learning from taking place. That has a long-term cost in terms of missed or lost opportunities. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...