Whether it is difficult to know oneself or to know others

On the walls of the ancient Greek temple of Delphi was an inscription: "O man, know thyself." Socrates accepted it as the main part of his thought.

People are most familiar with themselves, and the strangest is also themselves. ** said: "Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are clear." Wang Anshi said: "Those who know themselves are also the end of wisdom." "Knowing yourself is harder and more important than knowing others.

It is more difficult to know yourself correctly than to know others, for others, we are accustomed to using all our own self-standards to measure and evaluate others, although one-sided, objective truth still exists, but to know ourselves must stand in an objective perspective, just as we usually do not look in the mirror, can not see their own face clearly, but as long as we use the mirror, we can clearly see our own appearance, the same reason, we can understand ourselves through others' true and objective evaluation of ourselves. For ourselves, we are accustomed to comforting ourselves with different reasons for our own shortcomings, explaining for ourselves, so we do not have the courage to admit and correct our own shortcomings, so the shortcomings naturally do not exist in our own minds, or, it is difficult for people with low self-esteem to find their own strengths and weaknesses, always feel that their skills are inferior to others, dwarfs, work is only task-based, no positive attitude, never realized, maybe they are careful and serious, maybe others are inferior to themselves. If you are self-aware, objectively admit your own advantages, bravely face up to your own shortcomings, learn from the wisdom of others to see yourself clearly, strive to get rid of failures, and clarify the direction of your efforts, then your strength will be established and grown.

At the same time, it is necessary to improve from the shortcomings, and we must not be in a hurry, "if you want to hurry, you will not be able to achieve it", and everything has a gradual process. As long as you can be positive and hard working from your shortcomings, and make progress every day compared to yesterday, then your shortcomings may become your own pride one day.

I can say that I have known and understood since I can remember, and the time I spend with other people is limited after all. We know exactly what we like, and everyone else has a side that we don't know.

There is a famous saying in the Greek temple of Delphi called "Know thyself". What does this mean? When we have doubts about this sentence, we actually have an assumption in our hearts, that is, everyone knows themselves, and it is easy to know themselves.

But is that really the case?

The knowledge of oneself mentioned here is not limited to the physical knowledge of knowing your name, height, weight, and household registration, but we are referring to the psychological knowledge of oneself.

You may say that we look in the mirror every day and see ourselves in the mirror, isn't it ourselves? That's right, it's really not yourself, it's your image, and you are the opposite in the mirror. Our eyes grow on our faces, and they grow in the front, and in this sense, our eyes can never see our true selves.

Let's think about it deeply, why does the "Mean" in the four classics of our Chinese culture advocate the golden mean? Because we are not modest, we are prone to extremes and extremes.

Why celebrate Women's Day every year? Promote respect for women, whose actual status is not high;

Why is there Teacher's Day? Advocate respect for teachers, because respecting teachers and valuing education has a long way to go;

Why is there an International Sleep Day? Because a lot of modern people don't sleep well.

Do you see what we advocate because of what we lack.

Coming back to the "Know Thyself" on the Temple of Delphi is because it is difficult, if not impossible, to know yourself psychologically.

Of course, the lower the intelligence, the more people think that it is easy to recognize themselves; Those who have been through ups and downs are increasingly thinking that it is difficult to know themselves.

The image you present in your heart is not the specific image on your **, it is the appearance of your self-confidence and self-esteem, and there is no necessarily related relationship with what you have done or how much you have achieved.

Our knowledge of ourselves is limited.

Objectively, we know our parents, grandparents, their names and ages, etc., but what about our great-grandparents? A few generations up, I'm afraid I don't know much.

The above is the objective finitude of cognition, but what about the subjective? How much do we know about ourselves? Or to put it another way, there are people in this world that you like, people you hate, and there must be people who like you and people who hate you.

So who do you think hates you the most in this world? Who likes you the most? If you think about it, I'm afraid that there is no definite answer in your heart, and even if there is, it is just the self-righteous answer in your heart.

We always think that it is easy to know ourselves, but in fact, it is very difficult to know ourselves, and it is impossible to know the source of the model as ourselves. The most important thing in our life is to know ourselves, and the biggest loss in life is not knowing ourselves.

The root of all psychological problems is not knowing oneself, which is called not knowing oneself.

Comparatively speaking, it is more difficult to know yourself.

I don't know the true face of Lushan, just because I am in this mountain. It is often very difficult to know oneself because it is very difficult to face one's heart.

But getting to know others is much easier, and as a bystander, you can clearly see the other person's behavior and language.

It's easy to get information, and it's easy to evaluate others.

If you want to know yourself, you often need to let yourself analyze from the perspective of a bystander in order to truly understand yourself.

I think both of these are quite difficult. In terms of knowing oneself, because everyone has some little pride, it means that everyone knows themselves as they are beautified, not their true selves. In terms of knowing others, I have heard the saying "knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing hearts", so it is difficult for us to really know others.

I think it's harder to know yourself, as the saying goes, "The most familiar thing is yourself, and the strangest thing is yourself." When evaluating ourselves, we will always be blindfolded by something, often with some subjective factors, instead of following the objective truth, it is easy to misjudge ourselves.

Many people spend their lives not fully understanding themselves, because there is a lot of narrow-mindedness in the depths, and we think that we know ourselves very well.

But knowing oneself is infinite, people will hide from themselves, most people can only understand 50% of themselves, and the other 50% need to constantly self-analyze and continue to explore.

Compared with knowing oneself and knowing others, I think it is more difficult to know others, because I am very complicated alone, sometimes a person can't even figure out what he is like, not to mention, to understand others, and a person is different for everyone, people are also fickle, and they will never figure it out.

It's harder to know yourself. Because people are selfish, they will be very tolerant in the face of their own mistakes, and try their best to comfort themselves in order to be satisfied. It takes objectivity and fairness to know yourself, but how many people can really do it?

It's harder to know yourself.

First: Human nature is inherently good, but many people do things against their conscience and are not able to adhere to morality well.

Second: the comparison between people, losing their minds, and not being able to restrain themselves.

Third: there is no self-control, acting recklessly, and even losing humanity, doing things that harm others and themselves, not being able to control themselves, but living for others.

Theoretically, neither is possible.

Don't be surprised, let me tell you will understand, the human mind is like a river in motion, it is constantly flowing, one second it is like this, the next second it changes its form...

You think you know him, but in fact he has changed again. Know that you are the same.

Knowing oneself is the most difficult, the so-called biggest enemy of people is themselves, in fact, many people are not able to find their own positioning accurately, he doesn't know what type of person he is, he doesn't know what kind of thing he is suitable for, he doesn't know what kind of person he likes.