In Your 20s? A Life Lesson in Deep Self-Awareness
The benefits of not taking yourself too seriously
The idea that there is such a thing as your ‘true self’ is an odd one. It’s odd because if you think about it, you are you. How could you be anything other than your true self? Who could possibly be better at playing you, then you?
“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.”- William James
But the fact that we all know too well the advice “just be yourself” or as Janis Joplin says “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got” tells us that often people live a life outside of their true self. The very presence of this advice, that is common to us all, points that people aren’t living their ‘true selves’ and instead are spend time being someone else.
But why do we need this advice and is it good advice?
A Lesson in Being Yourself
For me, I’ve never found it too difficult to be myself, that was until I got to University and entered the world of work. When you’re faced with a new situation or place, often that is the biggest test of whether you know yourself. You might think you know yourself but when you are…
