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Most of this is insightful, and even got this 45-year-old (who should know everything by now!) thinking. I objected to this, though: "However hard you try, you
by sabat 18y ago
Most of this is insightful, and even got this 45-year-old (who should know everything by now!) thinking.
I objected to this, though: "However hard you try, you can’t avoid being yourself."
That's a semantic trap. Who you are changes, and can change, and you can be the creator of that change.
- wynand 18y agoI also found it insightful and was quite surprised that so many of those who commented thought that the points were negative. "However hard you try, you can’t avoid being yourself." Perhaps he should have reformulated it as something like "Personal change takes time; you can't change yourself in an instant and insisting on this is a great source of unhappiness".
- igorhvr 18y agoYeap. "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
- run4yourlives 18y agoAgreed. I think he meant it in the context of "Don't try to be somebody else", and not "you can never change so don't bother trying". I think if you come at it with the first take, you can be inclusive of personal changes due to growth.