I wonder if it is the market economy that is persuading people that they can create the person they want to be. Go to anyone bookshop chain and find the self-help section. You can be sure that the shelves will be full of books telling us that life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself. Create your own path, we are told, make your own rules and, above all, make it work. Embrace change and blah...blah...blah...blah
Maybe the above is just a fashionable approach to life that will change. In fact, I tend to think that yes, it will change and can therefore be ignored!
Ignored? How can we ignore a heavyweight like Steve jobs who apparently said: "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
It seems to me that this you-can-be-who-you-want-to-be attitude might well be partly responsible for the imposter-creation I wrote about yesterday. That attitude tells us that it is "good" to make up stories about ourselves. Perhaps, the market economy is partly responsible for this attitude. The economy needs restless people on the lookout for something different and on which they will happily spend their money.
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