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Holding a flashlight to your own brain and narrating what scurries away.
means Inclined to examine your own thoughts, feelings, and motives with deliberate, often relentless attention.
from From Latin introspicere, to look inside — intro (within) plus specere (to look), the same root that spies in spectacle and inspector.
Greek cautionSocrates demanded the examined life, ancient subtweet at the unaware.
Psychology pioneerEarly labs trained people to introspect, then abandoned it as unreliable.
Diminishing returnsToo much self-watching loops into rumination, not insight.