I love this video. I don’t necessarily agree with some of the things he says, but it is the best way to learn about self-awareness.
Terry is a professor of cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon, and he has been teaching self-awareness for over 15 years. He is currently working on a book about the psychology of introspection. He is also a passionate artist who is the creator of the artwork for the trailer.
In his talk, Terry goes into great detail about the different levels of self-awareness, and how we can use these to our advantage. He discusses the different stages of the self, such as being aware of our own actions, and being aware of the choices we make, and the different stages of being aware of the self. He specifically talks about the stages of introspection, as well as the things people do to avoid them, such as self-medicating or avoiding certain topics.
One thing that is especially interesting is how much self-awareness people seem to have, and how much we all have a bit of. How much of our actions is due to our own self-awareness and how much we make up for it with self-medication. Terry goes into great detail about how you can train yourself to be aware of your actions and the things you do to avoid it. His talk included a lot of great, funny jokes.
I am soooooo excited for terry. When he came here a couple weeks ago, I had a feeling that I’d be talking to him for hours. In the past it’s been hard for me to get to him because of the time and location. But I’m so glad I got to have a conversation with him. It was an amazing experience.
terry is a self-actualized person, so he is more than a little self-aware, but also a deeply spiritual man. He lives by the philosophy, “if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can’t fix it.” I think this is the most important thing I have learned here at terry’s. If you want to fix something, you have to know it first.
When I speak to him, I feel like I am on a mission. I feel like I am going somewhere to find out what is going on and if I can even help it. It is humbling to me to think that I was able to talk to someone who has struggled with depression in the past and was still trying to make it to the top of the mountain.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had the same thought in my head and ended up in the same situation. I can’t tell you how much I hate feeling like that. But I’m not talking to you about how horrible you are, I am talking to you about how you can change it, you can make it better. If you want something, it is going to take effort to get it. You have to work at it.
I know there are millions of depressed people in this world. Like, if you were to ask me what the saddest thing is about my life, I would say it is that I only have two friends at the moment, and they both live in a state of perpetual depression. If you were to ask someone who has never felt depressed about their life, they would probably say they are miserable. But that is a lie. There is nothing wrong with feeling miserable.
The problem is that people with depression often feel as though they are the only ones who are in pain. This is especially true in our society where there are so many people who are depressed, but there are so few who are able to talk about it. Depression is one of those things that gets talked about in a superficial way, but it is a debilitating disease and the more people who have it, the more difficult it is to recover.