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Stop trying to find yourself

Philosopher Joe Folley is skeptical that there’s a core self down there to find. In this Big Think Conversation with Jonny Thomson, he makes the case for a self that gets built rather than excavated — and argues that the attention it takes to build one has been quietly thinned down into something you spend, trade, and optimize. Then: why nearly everyone reads the wrong Camus book, and why Camus…

Stop trying to find yourself

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