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is figuring out who you are a waste of time?

(self) concept is figuring out who you are a waste of time? Molly Mielke McCarthy Dec 19, 2022 30 1 2 Share There’s this great quote by Zadie Smith: “He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.” These two people perfectly encapsulate the primary voices in constant conflict within my head. The fight’s rigged from the get-go: my brain works at warpspeed, spinning intellectual justifications out of thin air

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