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The only surveillance program where you're both the spy and the suspect.
means The act of examining your own thoughts, feelings, and motives rather than looking outward at the world.
from Built from Latin intro- 'inward, within' plus specere 'to look' — the same root behind 'spectacle' and 'inspect.' So introspection is literally 'looking inward,' a word coined to name the mind's strange trick of turning its own gaze on itself.
- wundt's lab
- Early psychology built entire experiments on trained self-report.
- the limit
- Studies show people are often wrong about their own motives.
- mirror test
- Animals that recognize mirrors still cannot do this.
- overdoing it
- Excessive self-focus correlates with more anxiety, not less.