How to create self-distance
- Use self-distancing language: refer to yourself in the second or third-person.
- Try to view the situation from an alternative viewpoint, that is different from your own.
- Try to visualize the perspective of someone you admire, and then ask yourself what would they do in that situation.
- Try expressive writing: write about your thoughts and feelings when you’re trying to analyze an event that you’ve experienced.
433
1.02K reads
CURATED FROM
Self-Distancing: What It Is and How You Can Use It to Make Better Decisions
effectiviology.com
3 ideas
·2.97K reads
IDEAS CURATED BY
"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about problemsolving with this collection
How to beat procrastination
How to enhance your creative thinking
How to create a smooth transition in a new endeavor
Related collections
Similar ideas to How to create self-distance
How to reduce your egocentric bias
- Use self-distancing language: for e.g, instead of thinking “what should I do”, think “what should you do”/“what should [your name] do”.
- Try to see things from someone else’s viewpoint, or you can try to see things from a generalized external perspective.
How to reduce the egocentric bias
- Develop an awareness of the egocentric bias. It will help you to understand why people act in certain ways.
- Explore alternative viewpoints. Viewing a situation from another person's perspective can reduce the effects of the egocentric bias.
Self-distancing
The act of increasing the psychological distance from your own subjective perspective when assessing events that you experience.
Is an external perspective that you can use when thinking about an event that you’ve experienced, where the self who is analyzing the event is consider...
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.
I agree to receive email updates