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Do you really believe 'be yourself' is a suggestion to be a jerk if you are a jerk? Jerks don't have a problem being jerks in my experience...

• roenxi 6y ago
  > Do you really believe 'be yourself' is a suggestion to be a jerk if you are a jerk? It is advice. There is a real risk that advice is going to be taken litearlly If "be yourself" is a metaphor of some sort that means "assess if your personality needs change and then change it if you are a jerk" then that needs to be what people say in the first place. And realistically even then 'jerk' is too abstract. This is advice that requires psychic powers to interpret and as such is bad advice.
  • tertius 6y ago
    No, it means be honest. Don't pretend to know more than you do, be nicer, kinder, funnier, more generous etc. than you are... I thought "be yourself" was a little more universally understood. It's very good advice. Stop pretending so that you can accept where you are, deal with it and improve for the better.
    • xwdv 6y ago
      Maybe it's better to say "Don't be someone you're not." instead.