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“Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable episode from our history like opening a photograph album and examining a snapshot in time. If we then discover the episode never really happened, then our whole self is called into question. But that's only because we are so committed to the illusion that our self is a reliable story in the first place.”
― The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
― The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
“Most have no memory of self before their second birthday and, even then, the memories from around that time are fragmented and unconnected. It's not that you have forgotten what it was like to be an infant-- you simply were not 'you' at that age because there was no constructed self, and so you cannot make sense of early experiences in the context of the person to whom those events happened.”
― The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
― The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
“When did this game of life become so unfair that we blame individuals rather than the circumstances that prevent them from achievement? This is know as the fundamental attribution error in human reason. When other people screw up, it's because they are stupid or losers, but when I screw up it's because of my circumstances.”
― The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
― The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity
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