That’s a funny coincidence! I came up with the concept independently. I will share a few thoughts here, as I don’t yet have a substack account. If I make one, I will definitely subscribe to you :)
If we generalize the problem of asking “who am i?”, perhaps we can conclude that assertions are valuable. Not discovery and doubt, but creation and affirmation.
Outside-in perspectives aren’t inherently bad, what’s bad is increasing the scale too much. Feel free to include your friends or perhaps family. But if you zoom out to the entire nation, or the entire universe, and you lose yourself. Even your friend and familities are reduced to nothingness. I wouldn’t go beyond Dunbar’s number (~150 people) myself. The more things you compare, the smaller the overlap between them. Regression to the mean means that, as you zoom further out, you destroy the particularities/uniqueness of every individual (and their values, etc). At least that’s my intuition
I get where you’re coming from and appreciate you “rounding off” rather than branching out :)
I wrote a post on “inside-out identity”, here: https://honestliving.substack.com/p/inside-out-identity
Also, I only post some of my writing on lesswrong, so if you’re interested, I can recommend subscribing to my substack :)
That’s a funny coincidence! I came up with the concept independently. I will share a few thoughts here, as I don’t yet have a substack account. If I make one, I will definitely subscribe to you :)
If we generalize the problem of asking “who am i?”, perhaps we can conclude that assertions are valuable. Not discovery and doubt, but creation and affirmation.
Outside-in perspectives aren’t inherently bad, what’s bad is increasing the scale too much. Feel free to include your friends or perhaps family. But if you zoom out to the entire nation, or the entire universe, and you lose yourself. Even your friend and familities are reduced to nothingness. I wouldn’t go beyond Dunbar’s number (~150 people) myself. The more things you compare, the smaller the overlap between them. Regression to the mean means that, as you zoom further out, you destroy the particularities/uniqueness of every individual (and their values, etc). At least that’s my intuition