As a result, I'm finally starting to feel like I can shed some old skin and take on a bit of a new personality - stronger and healthier.
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A lot of people are stuck in place from the delusion that their personality is somehow *them*, and that it's therefore somehow sacrosanct.
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But most of what we call personality is just habit, clothing, environment - the stuff we wear, not the stuff we *are*.
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Over time, as alignment with reality is lost when new perspectives are taken on but not integrated, personality grows less stable...
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... which is probably a contributing factor to why our culture has so many complete, utterly lost basket cases.
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Your skin is smart enough to change with its environment. Obviously there are limits, but you still ought to adapt.
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But power: power is so frequently misunderstood. Liberals hate it, extremists are obsessed with it... our culture doesn't get it at all.
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(Probably because for the past several centuries, it has been on the top of that particular haystack. Distorted perspective.)
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So I'm finally coming to undertand power in functional terms - what does it do, how does it work? - without obsession or aversion.
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When it's seen this way, three things become immediately clear: you have almost no external power, and almost limitless personal power...
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... and we are really, really shit at handling power, both our own and that of others.
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Most people live to some degree in a fantasy world, where they either think they control almost everything that happens to them, or nothing.
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