What I have discovered that introspecting is perhaps the best tool for the growth and development of your personality, going about it the wrong way can actually be detrimental to you. If you focus on specific aspects of something for too long you start loosing focus on everything around you, and in some of the worst cases you can even cause yourself to go paranoid. I remember going through all of this in the earliest days of my introspection, and after a while I realized that, in part, I was causing a fair bit of these things myself. Back then I focused on a single problem at a time, and became so encompased in a singular problem I had found within myself that I didn't take notice of how other things were affecting said problem, or how said problem was affecting other things. Eventually my culmination of attemps led to not only paranoia but frustration at not being able to solve enough and anger at not only myself, but the situation I was in. That amount of negative emotion often causes a reaction in people to find something to put blame on, and thus more paranoia ensued.
Fortunately, I was able to counteract this and gain a measure of sanity. Thinking back, I quite accidenly ran across the solution. I simply stopped focosing on that problem because I realized it was making me far too frustrated for my own good, and I focused on another problem, hoping to have better success with this newly picked internal topic then my last one, and luckily I was able to get a lot of that knot untangled, though not all of it. I eventually moved onto another problem, and eventually one night I got frustrated by my lack of general progress because, while I was doing a lot of work on singular problems with a lot of success, I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere fast enough with my introspection. I decided to sit down for several hours at a time one night and work on a gob of problems just to see what happened.
What did happen made me quite happy, I noticed that for some wierd reason, I was able to get a lot of work done that sitting, even for the amount of time I used (which I remember being a fraction of what I had planned on doing) and I tried this again later, though each time I got less done. Eventually I got back to the point of going back to singular problems, although when I got back, I noticed they were much easier to handle. I chalked it up at that point to simply having put enough hours into it, but now that I think of it, it was quite a bit like unraveling a mess of yarn. You can't simply start at one end and keep going, other sections get in the way, and you have to deal with those and then continue with the section you orignally worked on. Oddly enough, thats how I was seeing the bulk of my problems when I looked at myself clairvoiyantly back then, but I only made the connection several years later.
The point to the above: don't stagnate when doing introspection, if you come across something that isn't immediately solvable, work on something else, and come back to it later.
I had more musings, but since I have now forgotten them, I will save them for later
