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How to Know Yourself

Cross-posted from https://regkith.substack.com/p/how-to-know-yourself > “To thine own self be true.” While not the best father figure, at least Polonius got this one right. Or did he? It’s definitely appealing, but what does it mean to know yourself? You might think you know yourself, no doubt believing that you’re an upstanding...

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How to Know Yourself

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Cross-posted from https://regkith.substack.com/p/how-to-know-yourself

“To thine own self be true.”

While not the best father figure, at least Polonius got this one right.

Or did he? It’s definitely appealing, but what does it mean to know yourself? You might think you know yourself, no doubt believing that you’re an upstanding person. You even have proof, listing out all the good things you’ve done. Fair enough. But what about all the things you’ve done which you shouldn’t have? Is that, you? What about the good things you could’ve done, but didn’t. Is that you?

The truth is they’re all you. Life is like a Rorschach, and it’s easy to sculpt whatever image we want out of ourselves. But... (read 439 more words →)

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