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.

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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

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