"I know," or even better, "I told you so." And so, we pretend to ourselves and others that we know when we don't. That is the motivated egocentric version of an explanation for excessive faith in our own judgment. - Reichelt had faith than the idea, if nothing else.
Hm. So just to re-anchor us here a little bit, we have the egocentric anchor, which I think is the thing that slows down the friendship flywheel. We have the egocentric anchor, which is, people like me must think like me. That turns out to not be the case so much.
And I'm a worthless piece of crap, because you do get-- if somebody does something to you as a kid, kids are totally egocentric . That's a narcissistic personality disorder.
You know? And you get that feedback of, for them, it's like that saved my life. I'm pretty egocentric myself.
Yeah, people get-- there's just something quite beautiful about what he said. So as the egocentric self, what I notice is I'm a visitor to a culture and that I feel incredibly excited.
go from one landmark to the next and in each landmark you you perform a very specific behavior primarily uh coded in terms of what we call egocentric spatial behavior how you would turn left or right relative to the body axis. So, for example, if you wanted to get here, you
So all those perspectives, from one point of view, make up who I think I am. So I'm going to ask you to explore the egocentric perspective. But I don't want you to do it from the point of view that the ego is a bad thing.
Yeah, people get-- there's just something quite beautiful about what he said. Just notice what comes up when you identify with the egocentric self.
Yeah, people get-- there's just something quite beautiful about what he said. What are some of the things that you noticed as the egocentric self?
Yeah, people get-- there's just something quite beautiful about what he said. Yeah, as the egocentric self, how do I fit into this culture?
I'm not just saying it's not clear. And the reason has everything to do with the fact that most people are pretty egocentric .
And he was like, sure. Of course, under five's an egocentric thinker.
He was born left handed, but then was forced to be right handed, so it's terrible. The poor historian. She was egocentric , vulgar, oppositional, and underhanded. And she was sent to a correctional institution.
Whereas in Europe, we see the newspapers and it's the global refugee crisis. Of course, everybody's very self-- very egocentric , and that's how countries like to see these stories. But it's important, I think, to understand it as a global refugee crisis.
And I'll give an example that I may regret later, given that this is a live feed, but I think it's important. But I believe personally that if we found a way to have less like egocentric , ego threatened, incompetent people in teams, that it would be better
But yeah, it is great having Tim. But for me I just feel like sometimes there's such an egocentric thing that happens with a sense of celebrity, even at the smallest level.
I guess I don't want to think too much, because then you start to get, oh, yeah, I'm an author, or, that's my discourse about the world, Because if not, I can get very egocentric .
Yeah, people get-- there's just something quite beautiful about what he said. Right. So wherever there's an egocentric self, there's a sense of the other, so there's self and other.
outstrips your actual incremental ability. Yeah. Like, egocentric anchoring is a term that's used, and basically that means we think that people think like we do. And it's like, you think about the little kid that gets their parent a gift that they would actually like, like an action figure or something.
Yeah, people get-- there's just something quite beautiful about what he said. And all I want you to do is say, as the egocentric self, what I notice is-- OK?
I think a lot of people actually believe that. It's very tied to the K of the TALK acronym, kindness, which is our brains are built to be egocentric and self-centered.
of technology and how it takes time for the effects to be felt in society. And the error of thinking that it sits within the imaginings we're having in our head, that's sort of egocentric error, and that an individual is capable of imagining what that
The critical point becomes making the other person more readable. Hm. So just to re-anchor us here a little bit, we have the egocentric anchor, which I think is the thing that slows down the friendship flywheel. We have the egocentric anchor, which is, people like me must think like me.
You know? And you get that feedback of, for them, it's like that saved my life. I mean, it's like, oh, they've stopped sending us stuff or making-- we want-- we love that because we too are egocentric .
a business, you know, that, you know, I think. My blog is very egocentric . I'm always talking about myself. But
Well, what do I want to talk about? How should I make this slide? Ooh, this is a fun story to tell. And it becomes very selfish and egocentric ,