“We are free when our acts proceed from our entire personality, when they express it, when they exhibit that indefinable resemblance to it which we find occasionally between the artist and his work.”
The 50th Law, Chapter 9, Self-Belief
The day we were born, we became engaged in a struggle that continues to this day, one that determines the levels of success and satisfaction we experience in life.
We come into this world as individuals, with genetics that make us unique.
This inspires in us all kinds of ideas and skills that are as original as who we are at our core.
At the same time, however, the people around us, desperate to make us more predictable and therefore easier to control, are constantly trying to fit us into narrow categories.
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