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HTTP:: The Benefits of Being Self Centered
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Each and every one of us has thought at some point that the things we hold dear are among the most interesting out there in and of themselves, and that the hobbies and interests that other people have are somehow not that interesting, or straight-out boring. In other words, we view things from a different perspective than those around us do, Caspar Hare, an assistant professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, says. The expert proposes a simple exercise. Consider that 100,000 people will suffer an epilepsy seizure tomorrow. The news is very unlikely to interest you. However, things change considerably if you are to be among the 100,000 victims. Suddenly, the knowledge gains new meaning, and your interest in it goes through the roof. “You regard your own pleasures and pains as being especially significant. We have a tendency to think that what we care about is important in and of itself,” Hare says. The thing !
is that no one can claim that their interests or opinions are uncontroversial facts, something that is as clear as life itself. An individual's well-being is therefore not something uniquely meaningful, except when viewed through that person's own eyes. The different perspectives that are formed in this matter have been a subject for psych...
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