I've had a few friends privately tell me that they're struggling to have and exert a sense of self - Is this common for your mid-twenties? Or is it a societal movement? (I think it's correlated with atomization, and also a common step on the way to self-authoring)
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Replying to @coponder
I'm still not sure what a sense of self looks like and I'm in my mid 30s. I'm not sure I don't have one, I just don't know how I'd tell.
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Replying to @DRMacIver
Some ways to frame the 'self': 1) descriptive: the patterns of your past actions 2) prescriptive: your aspirations, intentions, values The friends asking this question have trouble with #2 in particular - they haven't decided what would be meaningful, perhaps.
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Replying to @coponder
Hmm. Maybe I'm being mislead by the word "sense". I could probably answer that pretty well, but it's a more cognitive process to do so than a pure sense. Not sure when I started having clear ideas there - 30s seems plausible. Certainly they've changed a lot in my 30s.
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Right, it's tricky to talk about. I meant more than I said as well - the two framings I mentioned correspond to past & future, but the present self - well, I'm there with you, I'm not sure what that would be beyond sensory data.
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