I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. - Charles Cooley

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

Sympathy is a requisite to social power. Only in so far as a man understands other people and thus enters into the life around him has he any effective existence; the less he has of this the more he is a mere animal, not truly in contact with human life. And if he is not in contact with it he can of course have no power over it.

To get away from one's working environment is; in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.