Creating your own limitations is an inherently self-aware act -- and that can be incredibly beneficial for your own welfare.
It is, in other words, a careful balancing act – as self aware and meta-theatrical as some of the most cutting-edge theatre.
Angelica rushes home from England to comfort her sister, and Eliza sings a fearsome anthem, "Burn," taking revenge on Hamilton by destroying their correspondence — which Miranda cleverly casts as a self-aware historical act: I'm erasing myself from the narrative.
Study hard and be very self aware, and if someone does beat you in something, act like it was never a competition in the first place.
(Again, yes, very self aware).
Instead, become self aware.
Moreover, set against Kiarostami's apparent simplicity was something highly sophisticated and self-aware about the act of film-making, and being a film-maker and public figure.
The enigmatic philosopher Hegel called this creative powergeist, a German term that roughly translates as "spirit-mind,"because it's self-aware, it progresses through the acts of Man across history towards its own freedom.
Although Vipassana meditation is not exactly a self-improvement program, he said: "It's certainly made me much more self-aware: How I think, how I act, how I relate to other people...
On the surface, the White Stripes would appear to be as clever and self-aware as any other underground rock act: a novel brother-sister conceit, kitschy outfits reminiscent of 1960's proto-garage acts and the use of just two instruments.
These do not seem to be the ravings of a lunatic but of a highly rational, self-aware man who committed an unspeakable act of conscious evil.
