"how are you being" https://jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/summer-solstice-2022?r=h8tih&s=r
are.na"how are you being" https://jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/summer-solstice-2022?r=h8tih&s=r
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
Are You Living Your Best Life
What does the best version of you look like?
Have you ever experienced it? What made that moment feel meaningful?
Or do you find the idea of a ‘best self’ unhelpful—a pressure that weighs on you?
• • Does it motivate you, giving you hope and something to aim for?
"It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so differ... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Having employed my self-awareness in such a purely artistic way, and having become so completely external to myself, I sometimes no longer recognize myself. Who am I behind this unreality? I don’t know. I must be someone. And if I avoid living, acting and feeling, then believe me, it’s so as not to tamper with the contours of my invented personalit
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