Our Real Selves Versus Our Online Selves
High Low with EmRata
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How to Reconcile the Real and the Idealized Self
We connect to people virtually online, not just romantically but even with celebrities or TikTok stars who maybe you feel like you know. When somebody comes into a room and when you sit down in front of them, it's a completely different person than this idealized self that we see online. So how do we reconcile the real and the ideal? If that's true. I think on a philosophical level, going back to Carl Rogers idea outside of the internet pre-internet of just how we think of ourselves as this idealized version versus who we are.
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