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Don’t assimilate, interrogate
If society isn’t telling you these things, you’re getting them from your family, friends, coworkers, advertisements, and television.
To know yourself, you have to do introspective work. You must read ferociously to acquire and filter through multitudes of knowledge and philosophies.
You must question yourself and then question the responses to those questions. You must then analyze what is expected of you from society to develop your own methods, ideologies, and philosophies. What society deems correct often isn’t.
The more you question, the more you eradicate the possibility of assimilation.
Most people follow the crowd. In the book, “Outwitting The Devil,” By Napoleon Hill, he says that 98% of people are drifters. They have no clear direction for their lives and allow life to happen to them by default.
Don’t drift. Live purposefully. Live in awareness. Be you.
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