#psychology #spirituality #opinion #earned-wisdom
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What you think you are, does not make who you are. We label ourselves and that tend to box us in a persona, with all sorts of rules we are trying to play. It defines the limits that we can't cross, and comes with a set of playbooks commanding how to act, and how to react emotionally.
Defining oneself as introvert, we'll naturally tend to avoid talking in public and dread social situations because we're introspects. Defining oneself as part of the insurance industry we won't even look at jobs in other domains. Defining oneself as a failure, we won't even try. Defining oneself as being always late, we will use the excuse as a trait of character.
The truth is, these limits we set ourselves barely exist, and are much easier to brake than one might expect. These labels we attribute ourselves are incidental, rarely deserved, and pointless and limiting. Most people are uncomfortable in life. Everyone you're looking up to is pretending to have their shit together, at the very least more than they actually do.
What you think you are, is not who you are.
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Be empathetic (#5), Do your best, and Continuous improvement (#7)