[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Self-understanding]] - People: The School of Life - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lTbWQ8zD3w --- ## Summary - [[Knowing yourself helps you become yourself]]. - "[[Lacking an independent verdict, we also stand to be unnaturally hungry for external praise.]]" - [[No one is born knowing who they are. It is an identity that is discovered.]] - "[[Emotions are the language of the soul]]" - Karla McLaren. - Be a little less hungry for praise and a lot more in original thinking. ## Notes - [[Knowing yourself helps you become yourself]]. - [[Knowing is being]]. - "We don't have a stable sense of what we're worth, and we don't have a secure hold on our own values or judgments". - Having a low sense of self makes you more susceptible to the wrongful judgment of others. We invalidate ourselves through the inaccurate validations of others. We seek to understand our truths through the truths of others. - "[[Lacking an independent verdict, we also stand to be unnaturally hungry for external praise.]]" - "[[The clapping of an audience will matter to us far more than ever to be wise]]". - Look outside to validate an idea. Look inside to validate yourself. - Who you are isn't determined by the appraisal of an audience, but by your own permission and acceptance to simply be. - Your sense of reality, your truth, is ultimately defined by you. - Project yourself onto the world as much pride as much as your privilege allows. - [[No one is born knowing who they are. It is an identity that is discovered.]] - Something that is enriched by curiosity and care. Something that is never too late to explore. - Who you are as defined by you. The only thing the world can do is watch. - The world cannot take your identity. It can only make you forget or resent it. - [[Your identity is your uniquely human right]]. - "Knowing who one is is really the legacy of having been known properly by somebody else at the start". - To understand our emotions is to understand ourselves. - "[[Emotions are the language of the soul]]" - Karla McLaren. - Imagine how different the world may be if everyone knew themselves and felt worthy - "Having come to know ourselves like this, we will be a little less hungry for praise and a lot more original in our thinking". - Know and befriend who you really are. ## Original ![[How to know yourself-1.jpg]] ![[How to know yourself-2.jpg]]