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Who are you and what are you doing? • How do you feel?
Chade-Meng Tan • Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]
“Sometimes I just don’t understand myself,” I admitted honestly. “Maybe I’ve lost sight of me. I don’t have a sense that I’m living this life as myself, as the real me. Sometimes I think I’m merely a shadow. When I feel that way, I get this restless feeling, like I’m simply tracing an outline of myself, cleverly pretending to be me.”
“The real self
... See morecognitive dissonance, or an inconsistency between who you portray yourself to be and who you really are.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be?
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
You knew what to do? No, I knew how to be.