On Real Self-Improvement
You want people to notice how far you’ve come, to admit they were wrong about you.
“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.” - Epictetus
It’s human to want to be seen as changed- or at least someone who’s improving. You want people to notice how far you’ve come, to admit they were wrong about you, to exclaim, “Wow! You’ve really grown.” You imagine your old rivals looking at…
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