• Laticauda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can make “willing to change and improve” part of who you are. I think far too many people interpret “be yourself” as “never change, improve, or self-reflect”, when it should really mean something more like “don’t pretend to be someone you aren’t”. Any changes you make should be sincere. Being yourself doesn’t have to mean being stagnant.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, ‘be yourself’ is really more ‘accept yourself, be true to it, and strive to be better where you falter’