Concept · Self
Naming and defusing
The self-stories that feel like settled fact — "I always quit" — and the practice of catching them as patterns instead of verdicts.
Lineage
- Grows out of
- The Woven Self · The association machine
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Two — How to PracticeNaming and DefusingThe self-stories that feel like settled fact — "I always quit" — and the practice of catching them as patterns instead of verdicts.
- Part Four — The Ground UnderneathThe Psychology of the Woven SelfThe experiencing self, the remembering self, and the observing self — three research traditions converging on a self that was always assembled.
Also mentioned in
The Woven Self · Starting Is Expensive, Staying Is Cheap · Scale-Tagging · Flow, Reward, and Why Practice Works · On Belief Systems That Know They're Built · Going to Ground