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There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses and children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves.

Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. Like a computer program which is on an infinite loop, it goes on repeating and repeating, but nothing happens. The machine hangs. Its similar to those funhouse mirrors that reflect mirrors, and mirrors, ever smaller and smaller, stretching away to infinity.

The same thing happens when people turn their psychological insight-apparatus on themselves. The Brain Hangs. The thought process goes and goes, but it doesn't get anywhere.