
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose
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The Importance of Self Improvement
The self is sort of this illusion, right? Alan Watts or any of the great teachers of Eastern philosophy in the West. And I think that's where it gets kind of toxic because that feeds into our illusion of separateness. This extreme individualism is often the root of a lot of conflict and a desire to be right.
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