Self-Complexity - Deepstash

Self-Complexity

This concept refers to our perceived knowledge of ourselves, based on the number of distinct aspects we believe we possess.

Goals, relationships, and activities are all part of a network forming our sense of self.

The lower your self-complexity, the more fragile you are. But if your self-complexity is higher—you have a couple of hobbies, personal goals outside of work, and relationships outside of your family members—your sense of self is stronger.

113

710 reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

aniyah_uj

"Money doesn't buy class." ~ Kiana Tom

The idea is part of this collection:

7 days with Seth Godin

Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection

How to develop a growth mindset

How to think creatively and outside the box

How to embrace change

Related collections

Similar ideas to Self-Complexity

Our concept of self plays a major role in motivation

If you change the contents of your thinking, then you change your motivational state. The same applies to other cognitive aspects like goals, mindset, values, perceived control, identity, etc.

Self-concept is learned and comes from how we represent our characteristi...

Increasing the subjective value of a project

Attach the work you have to do to your self-concept.

We generally want to keep a positive self-concept, so goals connected closely to our sense of self or identity take on much more value.

Self-sabotage and its diversity

Self-sabotage can appear in our lives under many shapes:

  • procrastination: putting off what we should be doing now
  • substance abuse: consuming alcohol and drug often leads to us not reaching our goals
  • chronic lateness...

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates