Authenticity is doing and saying what feels right to you in all moments. You have no judgement of yourself. You don’t overthink, perform, or strategize to get people to receive you in a specific way. You understand that your real tribe will stay, and the rest will fall away.

Have you considered that your chronic tensions may not actually be trauma stuck in your body but a sign that you gotta stretch and flex more

Everyone is afraid of “niching down” because they want to be seen as the multifaceted human they are, but committing yourself to a few good ideas is quite literally the only path to greatness.

entrepreneurship as a vehicle for individuation

I have seen the fate of those who have not lived their own lives, and it is simply horrible. People who live out their destiny and fulfill it to the best of their knowledge and abilities have no reason for regret. — Carl Jung, October 20, 1959

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated

I couldn’t quit smoking until I convinced myself that smoking was for losers.

Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an over the top way.

After the identity-belief changed, the rest was (relatively) easy.

Aaron Francis