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Fingers Crossed

The "Old me" vs. Who I want to be: Why do we always want to reinvent ourselves?

Fingers Crossed

Kristee Vetter & Sierra Green

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7644 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like a different person from who you were 5 years ago? 5 months ago? Even 5 minutes ago? Ever hopped on the midnight train going anywhere? Hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and a cardigan? In our society and pop culture, we're surrounded by romanticized stories of people leaving behind their old lives in search of who they dream to be. So today, Kristee and Sierra seek out the answer to an age-old question: why do we always want to reinvent ourselves? What types of motivations do we have to do this? And how can we work on ourselves in a realistic way that will last without leaving behind everything that makes us who we are?

Articles referenced: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201405/reinvent-yourself

https://www.fastcompany.com/90472208/the-surprising-reason-why-reinventing-yourself-can-make-you-less-happy

https://drivinginnovation.ie.edu/the-power-of-reinventing-yourself/

Follow the podcast on instagram: @fingerscrossedpod

@kristeevetter

@sierramichellegreen

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to episode number 51 of podcast number fingers crossed.

0:17.4

And it's all about aliens episode 51.

0:20.6

Oh, I did not understand where that reference

0:22.3

was for the first half a second. I was like, Sierra, did you change the topic? Yeah, by the way,

0:27.2

Scratch what we were going to talk about. It's all about alien theory. You know what? That was a missed

0:30.5

opportunity, honestly. Like, that could have been such an interesting episode, spending an hour

0:34.5

debating aliens. And if you think they're real. I honestly think it's such

0:38.9

an interesting conversation. I do actually think we might have talked about it before. Like in a Q&A or something.

0:44.4

Ali? No. I feel like we did, what was the episode theme where it was like. Someone asked if we believed in ghosts because we did a Halloween one. That was it.

0:53.0

Maybe we didn't

0:54.2

just test aliens. I feel like we might have touched on it.

0:56.1

I'm like, Christy, when did you do a whole episode about aliens?

0:58.5

Was I like just not here? Was this solo episode you told me was about

1:01.9

menstrual cups actually about aliens the entire time?

1:05.3

It really should have been. But yes, today we are not talking

1:08.2

my aliens. Maybe in a future episode though, I'm going to write that down for 151, episode 151.

1:13.6

151, rum, pineapple juice, and aliens.

1:16.9

We're just throwing a bunch of random references at you right now.

1:19.4

So welcome to the episode.

1:20.8

Welcome back.

1:21.4

If you're new, this is a great one to start on because this is all about reinventing yourself.

1:25.7

So if you're reinventing yourself by starting to

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