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“For the first time I feel completely at home in my own skin.”
It took most of a life to stop performing and simply be yourself, and now that you're here, don't squander it auditioning again. Self-acceptance is not the end of growth; it's the ground you finally get to grow from. A person who knows their time is finite stops wasting it being a worse version of someone else.
Your Practice
- Name one way you used to perform that you've finally dropped. Mark the freedom.
- Catch the next moment you start shape-shifting for approval, and stay yourself instead.
- Spend an hour this week doing exactly what you want, with no one to impress.
- Protect this hard-won self. Don't trade it back for belonging that requires the mask.
The Architects
“How can it be evil, when in its presence we are not aware of it?”
Diogenes, Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers VI.68 (Hicks translation); answer when asked whether death is an evil