{"id":5882,"date":"2023-02-06T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourgrowth.guide\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:33:30","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourgrowth.guide\/en\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be \u201cyourself\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The advice we hear more than any other from other people especially before showing up to important meetings of our life is “be yourself”.<\/span><\/p>\n

We often hear this phrase as one person’s ultimate self-realization.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is happiness, we hear, to be yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

What does this phrase mean, though, and why is it so hard to just be yourself?<\/span><\/p>\n

First of all, in order to be oneself, one must know who oneself is: what are one’s values, one’s strengths and weaknesses, what are one’s wants, how one wants to live one’s life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing oneself has always been the most difficult challenge for every human being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Few will answer quickly if you ask them “what is it that you want?” It is strange, but it\u2019s true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is this happening?<\/span><\/h2>\n

The society plays an important role. Since we were children we learn from our parents, teachers, older people how we should behave, how we should think.<\/span><\/p>\n

If something is different about us, even if we just wear bigger glasses, the kids at school will find reasons to laugh at us and give us a nickname.<\/span><\/p>\n

We grow up in a society that shows us in every way what is cool, trendy and popular.<\/span><\/p>\n

We see role models who are far away from our personality and yet we dream from a young age to look like them.<\/span><\/p>\n

How to distinguish one’s own voice among so many loud voices coming from every place?<\/span><\/p>\n

Today there is the promise of possibility, or rather the myth, that anyone can become anything they want, as long as they work for it or have the right connections.<\/span><\/p>\n

The options seem to be endless for us, like we were made to be everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

And somewhere there begins a struggle to reach a destinatioh, which we do not know if it is our own true destination, or our father\u2019 s \/ our neighbour\u2019s \/ or a known influencer\u2019 s desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

If someone is introverted or all they dream out of life is to find a quiet job and start a family, it seems very uncool in the age of public expressions and big ambitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to finally be “yourself” it is important to:<\/span><\/h2>\n