Circular self-knowledge is resolved by starting to act immediately.

Evidence

The individual who is going to act seems, therefore, to find himself in a circle in which each moment already presupposes the other, and thus he seems unable to find a beginning, because he only gets to know his original nature, which must be his End, from the deed, while, in order to act, he must have that End beforehand. But for that very reason he has to start immediately, and, whatever the circumstances, without further scruples about beginning, means, or End, proceed to action (zur Tätigkeit zu schreiten); for his essence and intrinsic nature is beginning, means, and End, all in one. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1334

Categorization

• DEFINE: Hegel’s own account of how the action-circle is broken: not by resolving the paradox but by entering it - essence as beginning, means, and End simultaneously.
• DEEPTHINKING: This is the dialectical core of plasticity: the deed is simultaneously the discovery and the constitution of the End, the self that acts is made and revealed in one stroke.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Acknowledging disorientation is the first step toward overcoming it.