The advice: “be true to yourself” is irresponsible and lazy. What if your “Self” lacks integrity, vision, compassion, or drive? Most of us lack at least one of these things. Being true to a broken Self leads to a broken world. Rather, build a Self that itself builds worlds.
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Yes. It’s a useful illusion, but only insofar as it’s carefully managed
Yes! It’s only a tool but we tend to forget that and give it too much power. Case in point “being true to your self “.
