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Being self-absorbed is usually heard as an insult, but decades of psychology suggest it is closer to the mind’s default: we sit at the centre of our own perception, overestimate how much others notice us, and struggle to see the bias in ourselves
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It is closer to the standard setting of the human mind, and most of the evidence for it applies to you.
It makes them human, running the default egocentric software that a single point of view produces.
In 2002, Emily Pronin, Daniel Lin, and Lee Ross documented what they called the bias blind spot.
That reaction is the bias blind spot doing its work in real time.
The blind spot is not that we are self-absorbed.