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Neoma

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3. Well, first advice is to not completely identify yourself with what you do.
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 09:50 PM
Feb 2012

Your career or hobbies do not sum up who you are. You are a complex, multi-layered person that no one will probably know fully, except for yourself.

It's the exact same thing as identifying yourself as a victim, and you deserve a more honest interpretation of yourself. Truth is, you're here on earth to discover who you are and then you make up your own purpose for how to live your life. It's not a unique position to be in. Just a little scarier when you're transforming yourself SO very deeply because being a victim is an emotional root, instead of occupational.

I hope that's good advice.

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