Public life -- that which any ordinary person can see of you.
Private life -- that which somebody with investigative skills/voyeuristic tendencies/obsession could find out.
Secret life -- that which is kept to oneself (and sometimes even from oneself!).
There is no way to access someone else's secret life, for even with--for instance-- an agent such as sodium pentothal, a creative person will mostly blab crap; this is not to say that there won't be any truth in what they say, only that one cannot separate the wheat from the chaff... in fact, it all looks like chaff.
Everything you perceive is filtered through your own secret filter. Many problems arise from people assuming that other people's secret filter is the same as theirs, or even similar. Sometimes it certainly seems that way, but there are many ways to the same end (i.e. many ways to skin a cat).
Introverts have secret lives that are a much greater fraction of their lives than do extroverts; extroverts tend to think that everyone is as interested in their lives as they themselves are.
Private life -- that which somebody with investigative skills/voyeuristic tendencies/obsession could find out.
Secret life -- that which is kept to oneself (and sometimes even from oneself!).
There is no way to access someone else's secret life, for even with--for instance-- an agent such as sodium pentothal, a creative person will mostly blab crap; this is not to say that there won't be any truth in what they say, only that one cannot separate the wheat from the chaff... in fact, it all looks like chaff.
Everything you perceive is filtered through your own secret filter. Many problems arise from people assuming that other people's secret filter is the same as theirs, or even similar. Sometimes it certainly seems that way, but there are many ways to the same end (i.e. many ways to skin a cat).
Introverts have secret lives that are a much greater fraction of their lives than do extroverts; extroverts tend to think that everyone is as interested in their lives as they themselves are.