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Paying attention to a thought alters its content and emotional charge. You cannot observe your own thinking without changing it — and that change is not a bug. It is the mechanism by which self-awareness becomes self-intervention.
Observation and evaluation are neurologically distinct operations. Your brain can register what is happening before deciding whether it is good or bad — but only if you train the pause between the two. Collapsing them into a single act distorts perception and triggers defensive reactions in others.
There is a gap between experiencing something and reacting — you can learn to widen it.
The ability to see clearly without reactive evaluation gives you an enormous advantage in any domain.
Before interpreting any information, identify the relevant context. The same data, the same words, the same event will mean completely different things depending on where you are, who you are with, what you are trying to accomplish, and what just happened. If you do not ask "what context am I in?" before you interpret, you are letting your default context — the one your brain loaded automatically — do the interpreting for you. That default is often wrong.