Becoming self-consciously aware of and classifying what one is doing can be counterproductive, paralleling the phenomenon of self-consciousness known to cause problems in many other domains.

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Matjaž Leonardis

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becoming you know becoming conscious of what one is doing um and... classifying it or telling yourself the story about it um is is one thing that is known you know in several other fields to sometimes lead to problems um you know hence the term self-consciousness

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Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity and ProbabilityDwarkesh Patel
Created: 6/13/2026, 7:01:37 PM

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