
In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be?*
Oliver Burkeman
It’s not that your personality itself becomes stable but rather that your routine environments and social roles lock you into habitual patterns.**
Ben Hardy
To stop short of me being me and you being you would be irresponsible.
Though the likelihood is that this is what will happen to some degree.
In a West African culture, a new born baby’s spirit is asked by elders:
Why have you come? What is the gift you have come to bring?^
It is imperative that that we bring into the world that which only we can,
Towards this we might take Ben Hardy’s implied advice
and shake up our environments:
Reading something different,
Meeting new people,
Attending different events,
Beginning something new.
*From Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks;
**From Ben Hardy’s Personality Isn’t Permanent;
^From Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts’ The Hero’s Journey.