Today's class made me rethink about the word 'self-centered.' I've always consided 'self-centeredness' was equivalent to 'selfishness', but in today's class the professor explained the difference. 'Self-centeredness' is when I am good to myself while I'm not hurting anyone else, and 'selfishness' is when my self interest hurt others. I always thought that I was always giving to others or altruistic and not 'self-centered', but I realized that I gave help to others to feel good about myself as a person. Therefore, I am 'self-centered' and it's not a bad thing at all.
The professor also gave a 'deep' lecture about how time has made us who we are today, and how time motivates us to constantly move. He pointed out about how no one is actually is in the present because our mind wanders to the past or the future. In order to be in the present, we have to act upon it. He also mentioned how in the present, we create a list to do for the future and we don't always do them. But if we created a future that'll motivate us to do them, we will most likely do them. The professor also explained how we shouldn't let fear prevent us from anythings, and about self-fulfulling prophecy. The topic kind of reminded me of a book I read, "Think and Grow Rich". Both the professor and the book talk about how fear make us stay within a cycle of the past and the present. Also our self-consious thoughts, or self, plays a very important role when we're trying to make the step for the future.
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