A Person is a Community

Notes

Claim

We are never just a single entity, rather a combination of multiple identities.

Explanation

Our multitude can be roles we have in life: parent, teacher, friend, i.e different parts of ourselves that we embody for different people Identity is shaped by and shapes our social interactions. It can be our inspirations: spiritually, professionally, and it can also be our desires, emotional, present vs future Identity persists across time through psychological continuity, almost any aspect of human life can be something that we are divided on. Diversity of perspectives strengthens decision-making and understanding is built into us.

Why it matters

As in any community, in order to avoid these conflicts, we need to find balance by converging these entities together into a unified voice Achieving internal harmony requires integrating all parts of yourself. The process of unification or rather Deliberation is a discussion that bridges different perspectives is not easy, but so is living with conflicts. Neglecting can be harmful to our well-being.

Examples

Supporters

It requires Being kind to yourself strengthens resilience and growth, so that we could listen and accept even the "negative" voices with us, and Introspection develops self-knowledge through internal examination in order to realize where are the sources of each of these voices, why do they exist, and what they are trying to accomplish.

In some sense, this also means that What we do is not who we are, because we can only do one thing at a time, while effectively we can have different voices competing inside of us constantly.

Opposers

Behavior reveals true preferences.

Open questions

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Overview

🔼Topic:: Identity Structure ◀Origin:: First Things First (book) 🔗Link::