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When success feels like elaborate self-deception

I spent years building my career as a successful lawyer but every day feels like I'm costuming someone else's life and I'm too afraid to change because I don't know what's underneath.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement in conventional terms can intensify the recognition that one's public identity may be fundamentally inauthentic.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with No-self and identity in Buddhist thought?”

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