I was debating with a friend whether we create ourselves or if we discover ourselves.
What we concluded was that we both build and discover ourselves through action.
We discover ourselves since at any moment we do not know how we will react, we can never know if we would be the hero or the coward.
We can believe whatever story we want in our heads but when the moment comes our choices will show us what we are.
But these actions will only show us as we are in that given moment.
In the moments that follow we can create. We get to reflect on our failings and create a new version of ourselves.
Or at least we might believe so, but we will only know so when the moment comes and we get to discover if what we believe we have built was built.
So the framework looks as such, we create an idea of who we are in our heads, and then through engaging with the world we discover if what we created is sound.
So what this means for you as someone looking to make themselves greater, is that you must test yourself.
You must put yourself into situations that expose you, that will show you if what you are creating is real or just in your head.
So in your head, you will create yourself and through engaging with the world you will discover yourself; let these two paths show the same man.
🖼 Knud Baade - Scene from the era of Norwegian sagas - 1850
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