"As the psychologist [[David Elkind]] has famously researched, **adolescence is marked by a phenomenon known now as the “imaginary audience.”** "Consider a thirteen-year-old so embarrassed that he misses a week of class, positive that the entire school is thinking and murmuring about some tiny incident that in truth hardly anyone noticed. Or a teenage girl who spends three hours in front of the mirror each morning, as if she’s about to go on stage. **They do this because they’re convinced that their every move is being watched with rapt attention by the rest of the world**." ([Location 933](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01AWUTMB0&location=933)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[ego]], [[humility]], [[self-reflection]], [[mindfulness]], [[discipline]] **Source** -- [[202409161103 - B - Ego is the Enemy]]