on oneself
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“It’s so easy to completely tear yourself apart in this moment, to be so down on oneself as part of this whole thing,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
“Working on oneself is complicated—you have biases towards what the results would be that are cognitively difficult.”
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2022
Through inner reflection on oneself, one can then understand the nature of the world.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
They’re all versions of curling in on oneself against the rest of the world.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
If the procedure is exercised on oneself, the best plan of helping the experiment is to write down at once all one's first indistinct fancies.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
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