I think it’s less about trying to be someone else and more about becoming the best version of yourself. You can’t change who you fundamentally are, but you can always change your habits and mindset to be a better person.
I’d be happy just to understand that sentence. Lets start with “you can’t stop trying to be someone you’re not”. So someone is trying to be some other way, like maybe they want to stop lying all the time. So in this case “you can’t stop trying to stop lying”. I can’t even get through that part. So move on and come back later. “if you want to make a change for the better”. In this case that would be affirmative: I want to be better by lying less.
So circle back and see if it works now. I can’t stop trying to lie less is a true statement if I want to be better by lying less. So I think we’re saying that if I want to lie less I need to try to lie less.
I feel like I just took too much time on the SAT and won’t get into college after all. But then someone who lies all the time doesn’t deserve to go to college anyway.
Absolutely, change often means stepping outside your comfort zone and trying on new versions of yourself. It’s not about faking it, but about growing into who you really want to be.
If you keep pretending to be someone else, you might just end up in a sitcom where everyone laughs at your expense. Embrace the real you it’s way funnier.
This is wrong. You don’t have to be a diffrent person to become better.
You can be You just better. Character growth is a thing and you don’t have to change who you are as a person, but your approach to life and how you act
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This is poorly written. You don’t have to be a static character in your own story, you can be dynamic and still be “you”.
I think it’s less about trying to be someone else and more about becoming the best version of yourself. You can’t change who you fundamentally are, but you can always change your habits and mindset to be a better person.
Trying to be someone else is like wearing a suit made of spaghetti messy and just plain weird. Be your own flavor of awesome instead.
I used to force myself to act like people I looked up to, but it never lasted. Once I started being myself, things actually improved
Change also isn’t about abandoning who you are, it’s about choosing who you want to become and leaning into that, even if it feels unnatural at first.
Cat Steven’s version was, ‘To be what you must, you must you must give up what you are’.
I’d be happy just to understand that sentence. Lets start with “you can’t stop trying to be someone you’re not”. So someone is trying to be some other way, like maybe they want to stop lying all the time. So in this case “you can’t stop trying to stop lying”. I can’t even get through that part. So move on and come back later. “if you want to make a change for the better”. In this case that would be affirmative: I want to be better by lying less.
So circle back and see if it works now. I can’t stop trying to lie less is a true statement if I want to be better by lying less. So I think we’re saying that if I want to lie less I need to try to lie less.
I feel like I just took too much time on the SAT and won’t get into college after all. But then someone who lies all the time doesn’t deserve to go to college anyway.
Absolutely, change often means stepping outside your comfort zone and trying on new versions of yourself. It’s not about faking it, but about growing into who you really want to be.
If you keep pretending to be someone else, you might just end up in a sitcom where everyone laughs at your expense. Embrace the real you it’s way funnier.
If ‘what you are’ involves a drive to change, then this statement doesn’t hold.
This is wrong. You don’t have to be a diffrent person to become better.
You can be You just better. Character growth is a thing and you don’t have to change who you are as a person, but your approach to life and how you act
You’re under no obligation to be the same person today as you were yesterday.