23. Self-Concept

Concept

Earlier I asked you to write one sentence describing who you are. This is a rough summary of your self-concept. And our thoughts and feelings about who we are is more complex than that single sentence. And this has to do with our VABEs about who we should be. These self-concept VABEs were formed as we developed in our early childhood development environment.

Our self-concept VABEs, the principles we have ingested about who we should be, form together a definition of what we want ourselves to be. Remember our definition of a problem? A want-got gap for somebody. Well, our self-concept VABEs are the want side of that equation. The got side is how we see ourselves.

Humans have a distinct ability to watch ourselves. We can ...

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