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self-oriented

  • a word derived from orient.
    orient
    noun
    the Orient,

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“I obviously get the self-oriented obsession with getting better,” Navratilova said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022

Other-oriented perfectionism bears similarity to self-oriented perfectionism, when a person puts tremendous pressure on themselves to be perfect and then self-flagellates when they can't be.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021

"If you communicate self-oriented answers like, 'I need more money,' 'I want a better title,' or 'I'm going nowhere in my present firm,' you'll be dead in the water," Beshara writes.

From US News ● Oct. 28, 2015

Sometimes, because I'm so wrapped up in my work, you could say I was self-oriented.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013

In one experiment, the Israeli neuroscientist Rafi Malach presented subjects with pictures and asked them to judge their own emotional reactions as positive, negative or neutral — a self-oriented, introspective task.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2010