Short podcast excerpt from 'Curiosity | A Bit of Optimism #Podcast' (uploaded by Clegg) where two speakers discuss reframing labels like 'self-involved' and 'selfish' as positive self-curiosity, and argue that understanding one's inner monologue is necessary before having a dialogue with others.
People go, this is somewhat of a joke, but it's not. You're so self involved.
Here. People say.
Yeah, well who else do you. Do you think I should be involved with? My gap between being, you know, the man I want to be in the man I am is because I'm, I believe, not self involved enough. And all those self curiosity of myself may be one of my strongest suits.
Of somebody who likes to talk about themselves and is and dissect themselves to those who have no self curiosity comes across as self involvement, which they mean pejoratively. Right. And I think to your point about trying to redefine words and trying to redefine selfishness, I think it's more, it's less of trying to correct them or embrace their words and trying to convert these bad words that are good. You're so self involved, but self involved is good. You're so selfish, but selfish is good. Instead of raging against the machine, I think to offer it as a lesson to others and saying, no, what you're witnessing is somebody who is very curious about themselves. And every lesson I have learned about myself is because I'm curious about me. And I wish others were as curious about themselves as I have learned to be.
And we have to have or understand our own monologue before we can have a dialogue.
