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Awareness of and ability to understand one's own actions and reactions.
‘self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem’
‘Such individualism lies at the heart of Americans' self-understanding as a people but it is a new idea in Europe and it makes the French particularly uneasy.’
‘Here he sounds like the cautious elder, advising a sympathetic intellectualism that would open people to self-understanding.’
‘This feel-good platform of self-understanding is a big deal to Michelle, and she's terrific at swinging conversation around to it.’
‘Attention span, processing speed and memory improve, as do problem-solving skills and self-understanding.’
‘Its aim is self-understanding, self-acceptance and self-realisation.’
‘It is a neatly convenient justification - that even if participants are unhappy in the short term, the experience may enhance self-understanding.’
‘It was his view that our self-understanding and our understanding of our common situation have become ever less comprehensive, and so our capacity to respond is increasingly restricted.’
‘He's started with an interesting exploration of his political philosophy, in pursuit of some self-understanding.’
‘The question of identity, the tenuous nature of self-understanding, and the seductions of self-delusion, are among her work's main themes.’
‘Humans have the ability to reconstruct self-understanding, an ability expressed in their self-narratives.’
‘The wildness of the forest enables a navigation of the mind so that a quest for self-understanding is akin to an exploration of the living natural world.’
‘I asked him a fairly complicated question about the historical background to modern Irish self-understanding.’
‘These sorts of skills - from information gathering to self-understanding - could be taught in primary school.’
‘Throughout, Diaz pays careful attention to the gendering of this community's experience and self-understanding.’
‘It is also the best path to self-understanding.’
‘For purposes of philosophical self-understanding, however, it is important to be clear that a phenomenon such as addiction can present different kinds of obstacles in the way of our acting well.’
‘Coherence is also increased by epistemological self-understanding: our understanding of why we accept the things we do.’
‘It tells the story of a mercenary who embarks on a journey of self-understanding and self-realization.’
‘His presence was real, part of the living tissue of our culture, our responses, our most intimate self-understanding.’
‘The self-understanding of the West has been divided since the Enlightenment.’