One simple statistic tells that tale: it costs nearly three times as much to rent a self-drive van for a one-way journey from Los Angeles to Houston as the other way around.
The journey toward public exposure can be terrifying, but both experts and members of the community agree on its importance in the process of seeing one's self as whole again.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, who died in 1669 aged 63, is widely regarded as one of the most prolific self portraitists, thought to have painted 40-50 pictures of himself in oils and used himself as a model in 32 etchings and seven drawings.
Finding one's best self, in my opinion, is one of the most important quests a person can pursue, and is obviously a prerequisite to being one's best self as often as possible.
The former he associated with professional and court paintings, the latter with literati or amateur scholar-artists who looked to the idiomatic brushstrokes of past masters and prized painting as an expression of one's inner self and life force.
But here's the point: The integrated American model of affluence linked to democracy linked to free markets as one indivisible principle doesn't seem so self-evident anymore.
In 1987 she had founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development which, as one of its programmes, took children of different races round the country to learn about the civil-rights movement.
But no one is as passionate about baking as Nadir Gullu, the self-proclaimed "dessert despot".
With one-third of working Americans describing themselves as self-employed or freelancers, the new paradigm is already in play.
Her performance is so profound an evocation of worldly disgust and self-disgust that one feels as if Hill were there merely to feed her the lines.
Over one-third of Americans are now registered as self-employed, becoming small businesses in a P2P economy of professional services and retail, or sub-contractors in growing sectors such as healthcare and data collection and analysis.
She explained the varied uses for Skillshare, one example being students who are using Skillshare as a self-driven educational platform after leaving college early, and filled me in on their recent efforts toward supporting teachers and providing even better productive learning experiences for members.
For example, we hope to distribute self-adjustable eyeglasses to the homeless as one of our offerings.
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Even on those two highly favorable (and not very realistic) assumptions, the judges rated the majority of the self-defensive gun uses as falling into one of the two illegal categories.
They originally looked for IQ and conscientiousness, the latter a measure of self-discipline known in the psych community as one of the Big Fiv e traits of human personalities.
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But the Ipsos study shows the highest levels of self-reported happiness not in rich countries, as one would expect, but in poor and middle-income ones, notably Indonesia, India and Mexico.
On the one hand, American Jews, who overwhelmingly self-identify as Democrats and disproportionately identify as liberals, oppose Palin for the same reason they oppose all social-conservative Republicans - because she isn't a liberal Democrat.
After Mancini's sacking, City's former kit man Stephen Aziz, described the Italian as "arrogant, vain and self-centred" in one of a series of tweets that were later deleted from his Twitter account on Tuesday.
One, he thinks of his technology as acomplement to modern medicine (some self-trackers believed they can do better than the pros) and it focuses on the next stage of self-tracking: the action behind the data using analytics, pattern learning and correlation.
As a result, however, it is now possible to point to a bipartisan American approach to counter-terrorism. (In a backhanded way, the current administration has in this respect - albeit perhaps in this one only - lived up to its self-congratulatory hype as a purveyor of "post-partisan" policy.) We conservatives should not demean this, for it is significant.
In other words, one way to think about personal accounts is as a mechanism for Congress to exert self-discipline.
Even just one observer was more predictive than a self-report, and as they added more observers, the better the predictions of performance.
And Ford is already marketing its new Focus - with its self-proclaimed "intelligent protection system" - as one of the safest vehicles on the mass market.
If CDER is allowed to re-write the history of Avandia, this vital FDA Center will continue to function as an unsupervised, self-regulating bureaucracy, accountable to no one.
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At the one processing sites, there were more than four times as many unassigned offers from self-employed taxpayers (those are typically more complicated than wage earner cases) and 37% of the offers were more than six months old.
One can only hope that more of the media become as wary as The Economist about self-proclaimed climate-change sceptics.
One part may be simple stereotyping : overweight people may be seen as lazy or lacking self-control, regardless of individual reality.
McCain again displayed his magnetic, self-deprecating humor -- at one time referring to himself as "Miss Congeniality" of the U.S. Senate.
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He seems consumed by his own thoughts, whether onscreen or in a piece of music, but there's one crucial key to the success of his art: He never comes off as self-absorbed.
One sometimes wonders where members of the generation will land if their self-idealization as hopeful sixties youth ever wears off.
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