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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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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but even then if you ask them "are you impressed with yourself" i think the answer would often be something "eh, i've practiced a lot, and this happened, glad it did, cool, nice. thanks past me for training so hard and present me for letting it happen. cool cool"
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Nah, no reason to cause offense. I trust my reads and have other ways of confirming them besides asking.
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