April 14, 2009
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Be yourself
The other day I was watching TV while I stumbled upon an interview with Eduard Punset, the writer and scientific. He was promoting his book “Por qué somos como somos” and that reminded me I had this post in drafts for some time.
I love the situations, the memorable quotes, the people – like Punset himself – that make me think and make my brain exercise; and some time ago I read or listened the question “How could I stop being myself?”. It has took me ages to find the source googling since the vast majority are self-help entries that have nothing to do what the topic I’m talking about; anyway it certainly belongs to the Marketing guru Geoffrey Moore and his book Crossing the Chasm, which deals with innovation at the enterprise.
How could anybody stop being oneself?
After thinking it for some time and rack my brains I came to the conclusion that it is simply impossible not being oneself. Even when somebody is a fake, the fact of being a fake belong to the personality of that person; and when somebody intends to change and finally he does that person’s behaviour hasn’t changed, he is being himself as long as he decides to change and has de determination to do it.
Of course I am not an specialist nor a psychologist, although I am very interested in the people’s behaviour field, and I am speaking from the ignorance of somebody who hasn’t studied years of how the mind works and the problems and tricks it has.
So, what do you do to be yourself?
P.S: At the end of the interview Punset said that one sure thing for the human race is that we are afraid for change and even if we know we are wrong we make biased decisions. Well, some people not.
Category: Rants
Tagged: behaviour, myself, psychology
How could anybody stop being oneself?. One possible answer could be: we have not come to discover “how I am in reality.” If our cognition were the database (server), our behaviour would be the result of “a single algorithm” only: the only one thing we have learned to use (educational determinism). The results that the browser gives us (the graphical environment – visible) are just a few only, and not always the best results. In no event shall the total. But “we are all”.
We have got a risk: being an image without sound, or reading-myself without clicking on all my own links. Living satisfied with a simple code “all purpose”.
What happens when we are finished a new software, and we have forgotten “only” a simple ” < ” ?. What do we display?. And what comes on the screen?. Is that our program?. The answer is “no, it’s isn’t
The unconscious keep under an invisible key (Encryption), everything our conscience can not support, (our mind does not use open source).
The task is to know “who” isn’t, “who is still without “being”, (which still tell us “I can not be). If we know him, we can change the old way for understand ourselves, to see the life, and this would trigger a new form of behavior, perceptions, emotions, cognitions, and a new will be.
(I hope that one day you can forgive me this authentic stone, that possibly made you say “in bad hour it occurred to me to post this issue”)
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