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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
"The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer."— Adam Smith
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Meaning of this quote
Self-awareness allows someone to observe emotional reactions rather than act on them automatically.
Key takeaway:
Pause and identify your reaction before making a consequential choice.
Origin of the quote
The Money Game (1968), quoted in Reminiscences of a Strategist
Who actually said this?
The author is George J. W. Goodman writing as Adam Smith, not the eighteenth-century economist. Secondary quotations identify The Money Game; book wording not independently checked.
