Conscious judgments about the self are often the building blocks of personal identity.

Underlying most behavior are tacit assumptions and autopilot judgments about the self.

Misalignment of conscious and autopilot judgments about the self creates a need for validation from others.

Self-validation: the feeling of having recognized, confirmed, or established one's own worthiness or legitimacy. –Webster’s Dictionary

Self-validation: the feeling of having recognized, confirmed, or established one's own worthiness or legitimacy. –Webster’s Dictionary

Articles I’ve read about self-validation present it as a series of conscious judgments about the self. Conscious judgments about the self are often the building blocks of personal identity. When conscious self-validation is a building block of identity, the identity it builds is likely to be insecure and difficult to maintain, requiring a certain amount of adrenaline to assert in public. Here's why.

The underlying factors in most behavior are tacit assumptions about the self and the autopilot judgments that derive from them. Conscious........

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