How to Deepen Self-Understanding in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide to Grasping the Essence through Psychology, Assessments, and Practice
4月 25, 2026菅原隆志26 min read
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Why Deepening Self-Understanding Matters
Self-understanding refers to deeply knowing your own emotions, ways of thinking, values, and behavior patterns. It goes beyond mere surface-level self-awareness andis an act of approaching your inner essence. As self-understanding deepens, you become clearer about what you seek and how you react, and you gain a firm axis for decision-making and relationships. Especially in an era when AI handles part of information processing and judgment, simply knowing information makes differentiation difficult,a deep level of self-understanding becomes an individual strength.
In the age of AI, information alone makes it difficult to distinguish yourself from others. Rather, people with strong self-understanding can use emotions, intuition, and unique values—areas where AI struggles—as weapons to develop more creative and flexible thinking. I myself have a strong sense of self-understanding, so I use AI to create many things, including programs, based on my own ideas. A state in which emotions and reason are integrated, and self-understanding is deep, refers to a state in which you can calmly evaluate external information while listening to the voice within. This balance is what can truly be called “intelligence” in modern society.
Here, I’d like to introduce research by Dr. James W. Pennebaker and other psychologists at the University of Texas at Austin, who are at the forefront of psychology. Their work suggests that “writing” cultivates mental strength and improves immune function. I myself became stronger mentally through such a method (writing). The practical approach that summarizes this method isSayonara Monster . Please use it as a reference to help deepen your self-understanding.
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