The Gap Between How You See Yourself and How Others See You

In 2013, Dove ran a social experiment: a woman describes herself to an FBI-trained forensic artist, who sketches her based on her description. Then strangers describe the same woman, and the artist sketches her based on their descriptions. In every case, the portrait based on strangers' descriptions was more beautiful and more accurate. The phenomenon is scientifically documented. Psychologist **Tasha Eurich** distinguishes *internal* from *external* self-awareness: - **Internal**: how you see yourself - **External**: how others see you Most people are strong in one and weak in the other. The gap between them is where blind spots live. In the **Goggles** stage of Coring, we systematically gather perspectives from people who know you across different contexts — not to please them, but to see what they see. Then we decide together what to do with that awareness.