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In there, he talked about the divided
self.
In his deeply authentic self, he also loved needlepoint.
But now what we're looking at is not an extension of the physical self, but an extension of the mental self, and because of that, we're able to travel faster, communicate differently.
The other thing that happens is that you have a second
self.
Whether you like it or not, you're starting to show up online, and people are interacting with your second
self
when you're not there.
And suddenly we have to start to maintain our second
self.
So, in the same way that you wake up, take a shower and get dressed, you have to learn to do that for your digital
self.
They have to go through their primary one, that's already awkward, and then they go through their second
self'
s adolescence, and that's even more awkward because there's an actual history of what they've gone through online.
I was always sending messages to my future
self
using tape recorders.
And really, when you have no external input, that is a time when there is a creation of self, when you can do long-term planning, when you can try and figure out who you really are.
We're also in the era today of quantified
self.
And a lot of it is because women are not able, are not free, to show their face to their
self.
And the journey to that place of understanding and acceptance has been an interesting one for me, and it's given me an insight into the whole notion of self, which I think is worth sharing with you today.
We each have a self, but I don't think that we're born with one.
What is real is separateness, and at some point in early babyhood, the idea of
self
starts to form.
And that
self
becomes the vehicle for navigating our social world.
But the
self
is a projection based on other people's projections.
So this whole interaction with
self
and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up.
The
self
that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected over and over again.
And my panic at not having a
self
that fit, and the confusion that came from my
self
being rejected, created anxiety, shame and hopelessness, which kind of defined me for a long time.
But in retrospect, the destruction of my
self
was so repetitive that I started to see a pattern.
The
self
was not constant.
And how many times would my
self
have to die before I realized that it was never alive in the first place?
I was an anomaly, and my
self
was rooting around for definition and trying to plug in.
Because the
self
likes to fit, to see itself replicated, to belong.
My
self
became defined by otherness, which meant that, in that social world, I didn't really exist.
My dysfunctional
self
could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.
But the shooting day would end, and I'd return to my gnarly, awkward
self.
On the other hand, my definition of
self
just lost a huge chunk of its credibility.
I had a degree from Cambridge; I had a thriving career, but my
self
was a car crash, and I wound up with bulimia and on a therapist's couch.
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