worst take of the year
We are what we do. ...in two distinct meanings: descriptive and prescriptive. If you are a person who helps stray cats, "who am I?" is answered by that statement. Neither self knowledge nor other-knowledge is required nor improves that. Likewise if you shoplift. Or ...
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One of the single best pieces of advice I ever read was "you are what you do every day". Stockpiling tools, making grand plans, talking - none are real. If you play chess every day, you are a chess player. If you write every day, you are a writer. If you are kind every day..
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As I said, this is both descriptive and prescriptive. Descriptive: tell me what you do and I know who you are. Prescriptive: if you wish to be an X person, do X. It's that simple. It's that hard.
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