the.com/self image
the movie you direct, star in, and occasionally lie to yourself about the reviews.
means the mental picture you carry of who you are, which is often more fiction than biography.
from popularized in mid-20th-century psychology, notably by maxwell maltz in 'psycho-cybernetics' (1960), who noticed patients still felt ugly after plastic surgery fixed the thing they hated.
maltz's surgery cluecured faces, unchanged self image, unchanged misery.
not the mirrorit edits memory more than it reads reflection.
built earlylargely set by age 8, per developmental psych.
social media eranow competes with a curated highlight reel daily.
for instance
muhammad ali — declared 'i am the greatest' before he believably was.
anorexia distortion — patients see fat in a mirror showing bone, documented clinically.
impostor syndrome — named 1978, high achievers privately feel like frauds.