Preliminary theory of self-liking. It isn’t the same as being likable to others. It consists of being interested in what happens to you, without being overly invested in, or striving for, *particular* things to happen to you, so long as unpleasant premature endings are avoided.
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I suspect a good deal of the raw material for self-liking must come from interesting things you find inside your own head. Even if you are perfectly ordinary, that’s one special source of experiences, because you can’t access the inside of anyone else’s heads.
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If your self-liking is based on, for instance, telling good jokes, you will like someone who tells better jokes more than yourself. For most people, liking any of your own behavior from the “outside” is unstable because you’re likely not the best in the world at anything.
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So you have to like the inside feel of the behavior. And it need not be a skilled behavior or sensory hedonism. Daydreaming is a good example.
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