But maybe this is who he really is, maybe we go through life never actually being ourselves, mostly never being ourselves. Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
But maybe this is who he really is, maybe we go through life never actually being ourselves, mostly never being ourselves. Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
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The Prism of Self Defining one’s true self is not so simple. It may be impossible. We inhabit many different versions of a changing self. The suggestion to be yourself may be too general to be of much use. There’s being yourself as an artist, being yourself with your family, being yourself at work, being yourself with friends, being yourself in tim
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Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert insists that all of us are under the illusion that our personal history has just come to an end, that we've recently become the people we're always meant to be for the rest of our lives. ‘People underestimate change in their lives’ he says reminding us that the one constant in our life is, in fact, change. ‘Human be
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