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my self NOT my selves???

Submitted by eledford on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 10:17pm.

"Each of us is a community of competing selves, with the happiness of one often causing the misery of the another"..."We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse...the community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either."  -(The Creativity Crisis)

 

Definition of SELF (merriam webster dictionary)

1a : the entire person of an individual b : the realization or embodiment of an abstraction
2a (1) : an individual's typical character or behavior <her true self was revealed> (2) : an individual's temporary behavior or character <his better self> b : a person in prime condition <feel like my old self today>
3: the union of elements (as body, emotions, thoughts, and sensations) that constitute the individuality and identity of a person
4: personal interest or advantage
5: material that is part of an individual organism <ability of the immune system to distinguish self from nonself>
 
 

This article is so frustrating...I feel that my characteristics, moods, emotions, conscience, motivations, and what not are not competing with each other as separate entities; but complimenting each other in some way or another, and very connected, unable to be set apart or disconnected.

Did anyone else read the article? Perhaps I just don't like the language of it.

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