Many Young Americans Think That To Know Themselves They Need To Find Themselves, And They Hold The Naive

“Many young Americans think that to know themselves they need to find themselves, and they hold the naive belief that if they could just strip off everyday life like layers of an onion they would reach their true core, unadulterated by other people’s expectations and the distractions of a fastpaced world. They believe that they have a true core, an essence, and that it sits inside of them waiting to be discovered, and that once they find it they will know whether they ought to be a doctor or a lawyer or a philosophy professor. Sometimes these young people go to Europe and work their way through Mediterranean countries picking grapes, confident that their true self will emerge somewhere en route to Italy. But people who believe that the self is like an onion and their true self is its core have not spent much time in the kitchen. Peel an onion down to its core and all you will find is air. You are not an untouched core. You are and will become the sum of your commitments, your choices—moral, intellectual, and practical—they amount to much the same thing in the end. To find yourself, don’t dig under the surface of your life. Look at what you actually do, at what you come to care for, at what you fight to defend. Look at the small choices you make every day in the classroom, in the way that you read and interpret and argue, and the big choices will sort themselves out by themselves.”

— 2003 - Tanya Luhrmann | Aims of Education | The University of Chicago (via logicandgrace)

27.08.2019

· { 2 / 30 days of productivity} ·

Today I studied for my physicochemistry test and started to study for my organic test. This week and the next will be so full I think I will have a syncope.

30.08.2019

· { 5 / 30 days of productivity } ·

Today I studied for my History test. Still morning but I know I probably won't do nothing extraordinary at night. Tomorrow I need to start to study for my Maths, Physics and the Inorganic's "Make Up" Test.

some people were asking for a actual and i can never pass up an opportunity to procrastinate so here’s just a couple of things i always need to remind myself of…now back to my paper :(

14.02.2020 ⋆. · ° ·｡

Continued my reviewing, finally estabilished how I want to do it. Grammar review then vocabulary, also learning apps when I don't have enough time. Is being hard, I can't find songs or youtubers to train the listening, but I'll keep trying.

06.09.2019

· { 11 / 30 days od productivity } ·

Did things, went to school.

I'm not doing well so I don't really know if I want to post this weekend.