<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # There is nothing you will ever do that is more... > {{There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.}} As crazy as it may seem, most of us are not who we think we are; we are someone else's ideas. Two words: cultural conditioning. {{Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.}} {{The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.}} Most people are buried alive in a cultural and familial avalanche from the moment they are born, and are never seen or heard from again. {{Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.}} Nothing is more miserable than living a muted existence of inauthenticity. {{All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity.}} You must begin to understand that this is your life; no one else's! This is your precious, wonderful, unique and brief moment in life! Please, I beg you, to at least be honest with yourself and be who you are. {{If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?}} {{It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.}} Refuse to be coerced. {{Resist the suppressive pressure to contract and instead expand in defiance.}} Resist and declare that you are alive; you are you, and you are un-masterable and beautifully broken in a fixed world. **Source:** [[books/Simple Reminders Book (2014-2018)|Simple Reminders]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->