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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So, thinking about it... I feel intuitively that a fully developed sense of self comes with a level of goals and desires that I do not easily experience myself, and it's much easier to construct those in collaboration with others than under my own volition.
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So e.g. one way this comes up is that I can have very pleasant conversations with people that others find objectively annoying because I can just adjust my persona to the one that fits the context (this doesn't always work and there's a reasonable core that doesn't change).
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