Quote Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue
I'd say that to gain a complete, absolute, objective view of oneself it must be made by someone other then yourself.

This is very true. How can you know anything at all about yourself if you have nobody to compare yourself to, to see what you're not? The mind works in a funny way, it requires to give itself an identity, so it can identify the world around it and its place in it. To keep a certain identity, the mind will choose to see what it wants to see, to prove this identity to itself.

This is why when you mess up or do something stupid or act mean you tell yourself "oh that wasn't really me, I was just angry" or "I would have caught the ball but the sun was in my eyes". Things that you do that do not agree with your self concept cause dissonance, which is the type of thinking i described above. This is why it is hard to rely on yourself to get a completely accurate idea of yourself.