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Why Do We Have The Mass Obsession of Finding Ourselves in the First Place
I look over my notebook to see my progression of interest and thought over the past year and a half. If you don’t have a notebook where you are capturing ideas, thoughts, quotes, and tidbits of learning you are missing out on an excellent and easy way to capture important information about yourself and what you are learning. As I look through the topics I start wondering why I spent a year collecting information about how to find myself and why we have to do that in the first place.
Author Steve Olsher says that in order to figure out what your what is to shed the past and connect with who you really are. Why do we have to do that Steve? Do that many people have a past they need to overcome? Is that why we have the mass obsession of discovering ourselves. What happened from the get go to make us clueless as to who really are? Olsher provides a step by step to discover your what, but I have to wonder how long step one takes. Shed the past seems big enough to warrant a pause. I wrote notes from Steve’s book July 27, 2021, at the age of 52, if that gives you an idea of how long it can take before you start to find yourself.
“Constantly being shaped, and reshaped by incentives and systems that we aren’t aware of, stuck in games we may not even want to win.”
