Discovering Your Other Self

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Mitch Horowitz
5 min readApr 26, 2018

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Depiction of the Roman god Janus.

If you’re like me, you often walk around feeling like there are “two of you” — dual selves fighting for dominance.

And you are right: There are, in a sense, two personas struggling within us all, like Jacob and Esau.

We experience this when we feel ourselves divided between ordinary life and peak possibility. People…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China