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If you understand yourself [from the outside] too well, you paralyse yourself.
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The quote warns that excessive self-observation can become a barrier to action. Seeing yourself too clearly from an outside perspective may make you overthink each choice until you cannot move forward. It presents self-knowledge as useful up to a point, but damaging when it turns into paralysis.
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- ABC Radio National, The Philosopher’s Zone
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