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A person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology.
Their wordsThere's no reason to believe that you will find persistent balance between these conflicting elements of your psychology.
Their wordsUseful philosophies disagree with each other sometimes, and this is only an issue if you expect yourself, or reality, to be philosophically consistent.
Their wordsOne brand of idiots will claim that pushing yourself is a bad thing, that great things only come without force. (Have they known any genuinely productive people?) Another brand of idiots will sell you on the necessity of constant discipline, of grinding until your last breath. (At some point they will do ayahuasca and have a psychedelic influencer arc.) Clearly neither group of people is describing reality.
Their wordsWe freeze into roles because we need some predictability, but we're also changing internally all the time, so our roles eventually become confining.
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