The Importance of Self Understanding

When you have that moment of insight about something you've done, it's like your watching your this repetitive behaviour that you've manifested. And partly what you're doing while you become conscious of yourself is to map the implicit structures that already constitute you from society into explicit representation. That's what self understanding means. It's a really good way of thinking about it, because the knowledge is there in its implicit form and all of a sudden, bang, it's been made explicit....