I am a big fan of the book “The Three Levels of Self-Awareness” by Daniel Pink.
I think he nails the idea that we are all self-aware at some point in our lives and that our lives are lived in our own little spheres of awareness. We’re aware of where we are, where we’re going, and what we’re doing at this moment.
The book is a great read for anyone who wants to understand their own psychology. He also explains how we tend to confuse our own actions with those of others. We often tend to believe that we are doing things because of someone else’s actions and not because of our own actions. It took me a while to understand this, but Pink was right.
We tend to think that our actions, whether they are good or bad, are caused because of other people. But Pink explains that we don’t feel bad when we do things because we think we are doing things, we feel good when we do things because we feel we are doing something positive. For example, when we get into a car accident we feel angry. This anger is because we feel like we are in the right and we feel we need to make things right.
Pink explains that our feelings of regret and remorse are because our actions have caused other people pain. For example, if you hurt someone, you will have to deal with the feelings of regret and remorse that you will have when you go to a funeral and see that they have died. But, you will not feel bad because you did something right. You will feel bad because you did something wrong.
We have felt this way before. We feel bad when we don’t do something right. When we get angry we feel bad for hurting someone else, or else we feel bad that we did something bad. When we feel bad we feel bad because we feel bad.
You can also feel bad about things you didn’t do, but you can’t really feel bad about things you did do. This is because when we feel bad about something we have done it is because our brain interprets that feeling as bad.
This is the exact same principle that explains why we feel guilty for our crimes. The same way we feel guilty about things we do, we feel guilty about things we dont do. The difference is that when we feel guilty about something we did, we feel guilty because we want to change something that caused the feeling. When we feel guilty about something we dont do, we feel guilty because we dont want to hurt someone else.
The same kind of meta-cognition goes into making choices. When you eat a meal you are making a choice to eat. When you sleep, you are making a choice to sleep. When you are in a car, you are making a choice to drive. When you drive a car, it is part of your choice to drive. So when you feel guilty about something, you are making a choice to feel guilty about feeling guilty.
