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I 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

by wynand 18y ago

I 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 ago
Yeap. "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)