Passive reading.

 If a person is being criticized in a text, and the one reading that text is in fact the very person being criticized, even then, that person rarely takes it personally. Suppose they are being targeted for their ordinariness. Ordinary people constantly feel the need to justify themselves—whether internally or externally. They cannot be “not correct.” This tendency dismisses even the slightest possibility that there might be something wrong within themselves. As a result, their minds become automatic in how they read texts. Their gaze is never inward, always outward. One should have the ability to confront oneself.