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> The majority of participants also said that following the advice would have brought their younger self closer to the kind of person they aspired to be, rather
by novia 7y ago
> The majority of participants also said that following the advice would have brought their younger self closer to the kind of person they aspired to be, rather than making them more like their “ought self” (that is, the kind of person that other people or society said they should be).
This was the most important sentence for me.
- GreeniFi 7y agoMe too. But it also made me wonder how you draw a line between the 2. We’re social creatures, and to a degree our aspirations are created by social expectations; the boundaries of who we are are fuzzy.