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Being impressed with yourself is a bit like being able to tickle yourself. I have no idea how some people seem able to do it. 🤔 Seems like the crucial ingredient of surprise would be missing. I'd have to be in a really unprecedented situation to potentially surprise myself.
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Not the ones I’m thinking of. We may have different understandings of ‘impressed’. To me the element of surprise is definitional: exceeding expectations. If you expect that then your expectations just went up.
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I have on occasion been honestly impressed with my past self upon having forgotten that I ever said or did some thing re: in the present moment, maybe sportsmen know what it's like when they score a winning goal and say "i dunno, I wasn't thinking" when interviewed about it
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One could be constantly impressed with oneself with the only surprise being yet-another confirmation where none could be reasonably expected... It helps that so many are correctly unimpressed with themselves