MY WAYS OF KNOWING

My ways of knowing

My ways of knowing

Introduction

Research in cognitive and developmental psychology has led to a consensus that automatic inferences play a significant role in human functioning at all ages. I define thinking as the deliberate application and coordination of one's inferences to serve one's purposes. I define reasoning as epistemologically self-constrained thinking. Over the course of development our automatic inferences are increasingly supplemented by acts of thinking and our thinking increasingly takes the form of reasoning. Neither thinking nor reasoning replaces automatic inference, however. Even among high functioning adults, thinking and reasoning are the rational tip of the iceberg of cognition. The role of develop mentalists, however, is to study what develops. A focus on development leads to a focus on thinking and, especially, reasoning, which leads in turn to a focus on the development of meta-cognition and, especially, epistemic cognition knowledge about the basic nature of knowledge and justification (Greenberg, Watson, 1998).

Discussion

Loving means we esteem for oneself and one wants the property. Self-esteem, like the one door to others based on an assessment, I consider myself in that, in general, I act in a manner worthy to me. This means being up to my standards. It is therefore; more accurate to say that love comes to winning own esteem. Self-esteem is to wish well. It is the same for a person that believes: we naturally adopt a benevolent attitude towards them.

To learn to love or to give that love of self, some authors recommend having some fun. They claim that by dint of "treat themselves well" we happen to love. Solitary dinners by candlelight, bubble baths, and flowers are conventional. They expected to get to be someone important in his own eyes. I do not think that is how you become important to you. In fact, it is almost impossible to implement such recommendations when you do not love.

Just as we are not inclined to spend time with someone you dislike, you do not find it particularly pleasant to spend time with yourself if you are a person who does not love. Those who force themselves to behave well with themselves as if they were important generally consider the artificial experience. In this case, it is normal that the results do not occur. Instead, this attempt succeeds as often highlight the fact that we are ill at ease and poorly with oneself. What remains then? How do I become important to me and how can I get one day to love me? Let's start with the question of importance.

Pay attention to what I feel

There is no need to pay attention to love me for what I feel it is to decide and to discipline myself to do it. To decide, however, since I suspect that this will not always be the party, I have good reasons. Here, are the most important.

To discover me

As "emotionally dependent" I tend to put much energy to get accepted by the ...