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Tags: existential self-actualization

Don’t seek to become more, become less

Instead of trying to become more—through an idealized vision—become less of what you are now.

Shave and rattle the pieces of you that conflict with your core-self. Challenge the assumptions you’ve lived with your whole life because father said, “you must”


ex. There’s a weird paradoxical feeling with self-actualization. While you may seek change within to move towards an ideal of ourselves, I only feel as if I’m shaving off the invasive parts. The parts of me that challenged my core and left it more obscure.

Instead of becoming more, I’m becoming less.


Become the absolute authority within your own life. Play by your rules The rules you play by are subject to who you want to become.

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