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Wanting to discover who we will become

โ€œAs we live our lives, we find ourselves confronted with a brute fact about how little we can know about our futuresโ€”just when it is most important to us that we do know. For many big life choices, we only learn what we need to know after weโ€™ve done it, and we change ourselves in the process of doing it. Iโ€™ll argue that, in the end, the best response to this situation is to choose based on whether we want to discover who weโ€™ll become.โ€

L.A. Paul on life choices (found in the James Clear newsletter)

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