You Don’t Need More You

Introspection
has interesting economics.

It’s our
superpower for developing independent critical thinking skills, understanding ourselves
better and deciding where we need to grow.

But after a while, introspection reaches a point of diminishing returns. And we end up sitting in a corner perfecting ourselves, trapped in our own heads,bouncing our thoughts off a thin
wall,playing a never-ending game
of inside baseball.

Sounds
like a good time to stop introspecting and start interacting.

Humans, after all, understand the self in the context of
other people. We regulate our emotions and
understand the world by connecting with others. So if we truly want the highest
understanding of who we are, eventually, we have to reach for someone else. When
we co-create with someone, we expand our brain’s repertoire and get new wiring
out of it.

Aristotle
said knowing ourselves was the beginning
of all wisdom.

Perhaps
knowing others is the rest of it.