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An enormous amount of trouble in the world, especially at work and in relationships, is caused by a peculiar phenomenon of our minds. A tendency to be, as we put it out of touch with our feelings when we first meet this idea, it sounds strange and even a bit insulting. How could we not know what we are?

Off course, we look from the outside, like unified beings. We carry one name and sit in a compact physical container. The distances between different parts of us aren't so great. How then could we be so multiple as to have secrets from ourselves? But in reality, there are at least two distinct parts to mental life, a feeling self and an observer self.