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The Introspective Illusion & how accurate are we in regards to ourselves?

How accurate do you think you are when it comes to knowing yourself? Do you believe you see yourself more clearly than others do?

Many people tend to trust their own assessments about themselves, but there is the Introspective Illusion.

"The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable."

If humans naturally have such a bias, how should we compensate?