{"id":1334,"date":"2016-01-17T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2016\/01\/17\/conocete-a-ti-mismo\/"},"modified":"2016-01-17T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T10:41:00","slug":"conocete-a-ti-mismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/conocete-a-ti-mismo\/","title":{"rendered":"Con\u00f3cete a ti mismo"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Know Yourself | The Book of Life<\/a><\/p>\n

Knowing yourself has extraordinary prestige in our culture. It has been framed as quite literally the meaning of life. <\/div>\n
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This sounds, when one hears it, highly plausible, yet so plausible it\u2019s worth pausing to ask a few more questions. Just why is self-knowledge such a prestigious good? What are the dangers that come with a lack of self-knowledge? And what do we in fact need to know about ourselves? How do we come to learn such things? And why is self-knowledge difficult to attain?<\/div>\n
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When we speak about self-knowledge, we\u2019re alluding to a particular kind of knowledge \u2013 generally of an emotional or psychological kind.<\/div>\n
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ONE: WHY AND WHERE DOES SELF-KNOWLEDGE MATTER?<\/div>\n
Love<\/div>\n
Work <\/div>\n
Living with others<\/div>\n
Spending money unwisely <\/div>\n
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TWO: WHY IS SELF-KNOWLEDGE SO HARD TO COME BY?<\/div>\n
1: The Unconscious<\/div>\n
2: The Emotional and the Rational Mind (reptilian, limbic & neocortex)<\/div>\n
3: Freudian Resistance<\/div>\n
4: Other people won\u2019t tell us<\/div>\n
5: We haven\u2019t lived enough<\/div>\n
6: We are fatefully vague about stuff<\/div>\n
7: Introspection is low on prestige and unfamiliar<\/div>\n
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THREE: HOW TO GET MORE SELF-KNOWLEDGE \u2013 AND IN WHAT AREAS<\/div>\n
3.1 Relationships<\/div>\n
i: Repetition Compulsion<\/div>\n
ii: Projection<\/div>\n
3.2 <\/span>Confrontation and criticism<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
i: Confrontation Styles (Passive, Aggressive, Passive-aggressive & Assertive)<\/div>\n
ii: Criticism <\/div>\n
3.3 Career<\/div>\n
i: Vagueness around one\u2019s ambitions<\/div>\n
ii: Attitudes to ambition<\/div>\n
iii: The meaning of your life<\/div>\n
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FOUR: WHAT OTHERS CAN KNOW OF US (AT ONCE)<\/div>\n
The gap between self-perception and the point of view of others\u2026<\/div>\n
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FIVE: FAMILY DYNAMICS<\/div>\n
i: Overall Picture: How you feel about your family<\/div>\n
ii: Blame and self-knowledge<\/div>\n
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SIX: TASTE AND YOUR IDEA OF HAPPINESS<\/div>\n
Aesthetic preferences can yield revealing insights. Personal taste reflects other things about us.<\/div>\n
We use visual decoration styles to correct\/rebalance ourselves.<\/div>\n
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SEVEN: WISDOM AND THE SEARCH FOR MOMENTS OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS<\/div>\n
1: Fostering a capacity to observe one\u2019s cruder impulses<\/div>\n
2: Developing a capacity to interpret the behaviour of others, rather than merely react to it automatically<\/div>\n
3: Developing a capacity for universal love<\/div>\n
4: Developing a suspicion about your own feelings<\/div>\n
<\/span>Philosophical Meditation: ordering our minds rather than emptying them<\/div>\n
<\/span>The Art of Conversation: how can one improve and speed up self-knowledge<\/div>\n
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CONCLUSION<\/div>\n
What does the wise person end up knowing about themselves?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Know Yourself | The Book of Life Knowing yourself has extraordinary prestige in our culture. It has been framed as quite literally the meaning of life.  This sounds, when one hears it, highly plausible, yet so plausible it\u2019s worth pausing to ask a few more questions. Just why is self-knowledge such a prestigious good? What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}