A Guide to “The Person You Want to Be” (Season One)

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

— e e cummings

How do you figure out who it is you wish to be, and then work towards becoming that person?

What happens when, through unforeseen circumstances, you change your mind?

Or you encounter obstacles so powerful they force you to reconsider?

Who are you, in actuality?

Do you create yourself, or discover yourself, through your choices in life?

How do you know when your choices are even your own, given the powerful forces that shape us all (biology, upbringing, culture, technology, etc.)?

How much influence do we ultimately have over how our lives play out?

These kinds of questions have fascinated me throughout my own life.

So much so that they led me to start a podcast called The Person You Want to Be, in which I interview people in depth about their lives (in particular, people I have found inspiring in some way) to see what insights can be gained through mining their personal stories.