Researchers Reveal the Age When Most People Discover Their True Selves
Two competing ideas shape how we think about personal identity: Do we discover who we are, or do we create ourselves over time? Is our true self already there, waiting to be uncovered beneath layers of social conditioning, or is identity something we gradually build through our experiences, choices, and relationships?
Perhaps neither explanation tells the whole story. Maybe we are constantly changing, forever becoming someone new. As Bob Dylan famously put it, should we be “busy being born” rather than “busy dying”?
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