Egocentrism

What's the difference?

Egocentrism is a state of arrested psychological development.

It is the literal cognitive inability to hold another person's reality as fundamentally real and valid.

Right.

It's like, one way we do it is putting yourself in their shoes, so to speak.

But, um, it could literally be just, like, having a mental representation of another mind in front of you, right? It's like if you look at kids under the age of three or four, they don't have that yet, right? So they're like, "Me and my needs and my-" All right? They're just-- It's just like they're in their world and they're interacting with the world like it's all about them really, right? E-egocentric, right? And then suddenly they go, "Oh, whoa, I have a mind and you have a mind.

We have different minds." And they're collaborating, they're communicating.

"Oh, what I'm thinking is different than what you're thinking.