Developing Self Awareness | Dr. Raymond Raad

The approach to life that Ayn Rand recommended requires knowing ourselves well, in order to make good and appropriate decisions about how to lead our lives. What does it mean to understand ourselves? And how can we go about doing it? Self-understanding means understanding our outward behaviors and our internal thoughts, feelings, motivations, temperaments, values and virtues. It also means having a sense of ourselves both at an individual moment and over time. Dr. Raymond Raad argues that three mental tools are necessary in the process of seeking self-understanding: a commitment to reason, a willingness to examine and fully experience one’s emotions, and in many cases a suspension of moral judgment.

ABOUT DR. RAYMOND RAAD:
Dr. Raymond Raad is a psychiatrist in private practice in NYC and a research fellow at Columbia University.

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