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Lisa Olivera: The Self-Extraction Impulse

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The Importance of Listening to What Is Right

I just did an episode recently called, am I allowed to say this, which was exploring the ways in which we get locked into these online personas that we cultivate. We can become this kind of monoculture of ourselves, where it feels like we have to show up in every space online with a certain persona. And there's this pressure to continue to tend to and be consistent with this identity that we've created. It's extremely suffocating and detrimental to our self expression and to our growth. The sense of security and comfortability we can find in the roles that we become familiar with can be enticing enough to make it easy to ignore the callings or the longings that might fall

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