Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Observation of one's own countenance or appearance.
- noun Examination of one's own thoughts or emotions.
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Examples
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That there is such a capacity within the human heart must be discovered by introspection, self-observation, and by true contemplation.
Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great" Kabir Helminski 2011
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In the process, we get attitudes from enthusiasm to permanent incredulous self-observation and reflection, which is great to witness.
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My self-observation is that in the short run, the supply of self-control seems fixed, but in the long run, I obtain more through practice (or at the very least, practicing self-control in a given context has the effect that the cost of exercising self-control in that context decreases).
Jason Furman on Taxes, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My self-observation is that the bigger I TRY to be, the less I am focusing on doing things really well.
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Honest self-observation is the antidote to unwitting self-deception.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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There are further vocabularies, whose points of reference are more unstable, slipping ambiguously between metaphysics and self-observation, cosmogony and existential philosophy.
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Self-knowledge gained through introspection and self-observation is the key to life wisdom.
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No discourse or reference point is excluded here: one finds interactions between morality and magnetism, psychopathology and philology, self-observation and metaphysics.
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You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving.
George Elerick: Do Christians Have a Right to Judge the World? 2010
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Building this skill of self-observation, sometimes referred to as “witnessing,” allows us to step back from the ongoing drama our mind constantly creates.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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