SCIENCE: Published work re: social constructs and inner/outer game

I'm reading a scientific article on personality written by two prominent researchers at the Institute of Personality and Social Research in Berkeley, California. Here's the quote for you:

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"Socioanalytic theory (Hogan, 1996) focuses on the social functions of self- and other-perceptions. According to Hogan, trait concepts serve as the "linguistic tools of observers" (p. 172) used to encode and communicate reputations

This view implies that traits are socially constructed to serve interpersonal functions.

Because trait terms are fundamentally about reputation, individuals who self-report their traits engage in a symbolic-interactionist process of introspection (i.e., the individual considers how others view him or her). Hogan emphasizes that individuals may distort their self-reports with self-presentational strategies; another source of distortion are self-deceptive biases (cf. Paulhus & John, 1998) which do not reflect deliberate impression management but honestly held, though biased, beliefs about the self."

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I post this to illustrate scientific research on the topic of inner/outer game correlations.

Basically they're saying that the language/words we use to describe people's personality traits is madeup entirely to describe our social behavior.

The idea we preach here is basically to get your inner game tight (self-deceptive bias... also known as "delusional self-confidence", "core confidence", etc) and then to go out there and get experience in the field giving value such that our outer game reflects our inner feelings of ourself.

They measure this stuff two ways: 1) is self-reports (inner game) and 2) is peer-reports (outer game). At some point, the two will matchup, and you are achieving self-actualization.

cheers mates,
Confidant