How I aim to define myself

This one question—“What do I know for certain?”—is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, belief

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
– Charles Darwin

Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it.

– Rick Rubin

The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.

"Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan."

– Naval Ravikant

How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.

"When you are finished changing, you are finished."
– Benjamin Franklin

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

– Franz Kafka