2019: pick out a label from available ones and smash yourself into becoming that. 2020: do whatever you were naturally gonna do. let others find a label for you. if you really need it, invent your own label yourself. it can just be your name.
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The strength of psycho-social feedback loops is pretty amazing, but you can undermine a significant amount of the conditioned responsiveness to the category mechanism, such that it has much less impact on you. There are risks though, such as careening into perceived social death.
This is one reason why meditator types who try to go it alone have a much lower survival rate - you need other people who have gone through the process of disentangling from cultural contexts to support you, and make the space between worlds seem safe & sane.
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I wonder how much faster I could go with a sangha. It's so not my style that it might be exactly what i need
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uh - interestingly in some things im v v v excited to have a master/teacher (dancing, improv, sculpting, drawing, ...) but in some really not (gym, meditation)
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