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[QUOTE="medeiros13, post: 421070, member: 10748"]
Observing yourself.  This was probably the most eye opening portion of the book for me.  The example that was used in the book really hammered home the point for me so I'll try to come up with something similar. (if I do infringe in error, please delete or change my example slightly)
 
Lets say you're a TAG player and you get a nice run of cards; a few pocket pairs, AK suited, etc in about a 10 hand span.  You are (correctly) raising the pots and are getting into heads up situations.  The flops are hitting your hands so you are correctly betting into the pot but your opponents are folding.  In your mind, you are playing tight aggressive poker and your big hands are rightfully winning you hands.
 
From your opponents perspective, you are starting to become a bully.  This tight aggressive player (we'll assume the table agrees with your TAG image) is raising a ton of pots lately and is winning hands without showing what they have.  
 
What should you take from this??  Now is probably not the time to be running a bluff because the table could be tired of being bullied by you.  Also, you should probably be tightening up your hand selection because you're more likely to be called down based on what the table's recent history is on you.
 
The real message (at least from my reading eyes) is that your table image isn't what you think/want your image to be; it's what your play dictates!!
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