How to Stop Focusing on Your Flaws

  Focusing on your flaws isn’t an act of honesty or a way of being more aware of who you are. While self-evaluation is important so you can learn from your mistakes, it’s a long way from focusing on them, building on them, and criticizing yourself mercilessly. Within the great capacities of the human brain, is that of seeing our own activity almost ‘from the outside’ at the moment we’re carrying it out. In other words, we observe ourselves while we’re acting and judge what we’re doing. Unfortunately, this ability sometimes becomes too incisive. It means we excessively focus on our…