Self Delusion 1.

It seems to me that most people go through life thinking of how without this constraint, or this choice, they could be doing completely different things with their life.

I am capable of so much, but I am choosing to hide it because of

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• reason 127,241.

Increasingly I think that people are what they do... and only what they do.

There are parts of the brain, whose primary role is to stop you from doing things...and that is good - when this part of the brain works well, you have a successful person, if it works badly the person is an impulsive "now-junky" who will almost certainly end up in jail.

So if who we are, and how we are seen by society is determined by what we don't do, then pretending that we are so much deeper, or more complicated or more capable that what we show is pure self delusion.