Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,923. This excerpt

comes from the book called Mastery by Robert Green. And he gives a quote of a Greek poet named Pinder.

And Pinder writes this, become who you are by learning who you are.

And he goes on to explain what he meant is the following.

You are born with a particular makeup and tendencies that mark you as a piece of fate.

It is who you are to the core.

Some people never become who they are.

They stop trusting in themselves.

They conform to the tastes of others,

and they end up wearing a mask that hides their true nature. If you allow yourself to learn

who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can

become what you are fated to become an individual, a master, close quote.

What I love about this is the part, what he says, that the things that hinder you from becoming

the person who you're supposed to be.

When you stop trusting yourself, when you don't pay the price to get to know yourself,

when you conform to the tastes of others, when you put on a mask so that you could appease the

likes and appease other people. And my question to you is, which of these things are you doing that is hiding or masking the true version

of who you really are? Are you doing things to signal that you are like others? But deep down,

you don't really like the path that you're going. You don't like the things that other people

like. There's something inside of you

that you want to do, you want to pursue, you want to read, you want to look into, however,

you're afraid of what other people might think. This is an invitation and a reminder to go in

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