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Is it possible to know someone better than they know themselves?
No it’s not possible! You may be able to see some things that they don’t see about themselves but you can never know for certain who a person is better than they know themselves as you are not them and you will only ever have a perception of them based upon your own experiences and views in life.
How can you know yourself better?
How to Get to Know Yourself Better
- Determine your values and the set the moral code that you want to live by.
- Discover your own unique personality.
- Decide what you want your future to be like.
- Focus on your own interests and what you enjoy doing.
- Discover your strengths and weaknesses.
Can another person Know You Better Than you know themselves?
To offer the most concise answer to the question around which this discussion revolves: No, realistically speaking, another person—unless they’re truly psychic or a highly intuitive and well-seasoned mental health professional—can’t know ourselves better than we’re able to.
How well do we know ourselves?
A naïve response to the challenge is to say that we know ourselves perfectly well, thank you very much. A more sophisticated view grants that we ourselves, as objects of our own perception, are unlike simple physical objects that can be described by a small set of unchanging features.
Can the self or the observer be more accurate?
Simine Vazire tried to breathe new life into this area of research by proposing that either the self or the observer can be more accurate; it all depends on the type of trait being judged.
When do our selves do better than others?
In an article in the Current Directions in Psychological Science ( CDPS ), Vazire & Carlson (2011) suggest selves do better when the traits are hard to observe from the outside and neither extremely desirable nor undesirable (e.g., anxiety ).