The Wisdom Series: Will Storr | Why We’ve Become So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us
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Aristotle's Mindset of Individualistic Self Love
In ancient Greece, the emphasis moved away from groupishness in ancient Greece onto the individual and it had to because of the way that the landscape was. In East Asia, you're born in an environment whereby in order to get along and get ahead, you had to become the group. So this is a really extraordinary idea and it's completely different to kind of how we're wired up. We're wired up to just think groupishly and to be groupish. And so when they look at the movement of their eyes on cartoon fish tanks, Westerners see themselves as these big orange fish who are very self-confident. They go, well, I saw a fish, just like
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