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What is the answer to the question “who Am I?

What is the answer to the question “who Am I?

“The question, ‘who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.” Whoa. Dissolve the questioner. What does that even mean? How can dissolving my identity help me figure out who I am? Let’s try and find out. Who am I = what is my identity? The “answer” to “who am I” is our identity.

Who Am I and what is my identity?

Let’s try and find out. Who am I = what is my identity? The “answer” to “who am I” is our identity. Our identity is our all-encompassing system of memories, experience, feelings, thoughts, relationships, and values that define who each of us is. It’s the stuff that makes up a “self.” Identity is a critical component of understanding who we are.

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Does trying to figure ourselves out interfere with discovering who we are?

The second theme is that the very act of trying to figure ourselves out may interfere with discovering who we are. In what is known as the mere measurement effect, researchers found that people who are asked questions about an activity or a product behaved differently from those who were not asked these questions.

Do you care about what other people think of You?

I imagine that other people find this question to be very interesting and meaningful as well. Human beings are hyper-social creatures. We care a lot—at times, too much—about what other people think of us. As such, it seems natural that we should care about who we are and what we think of ourselves.

Are you someone else or someone else?

It all depends how you describe “you”. You can be “your body, your memories, your story”, in which case the answer is pretty clear: you are not someone else because they are not connected physically to your brain. Or you may think of “you” in a more philosophical way: the consciousness.

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What does it mean to not understand what the other person feels?

The phrase suggests that you don’t truly understand what the other person feels at all. (Really, how could you?) It suggests that you feel the need to turn the conversation toward your experience, not his or hers, and that ultimately you don’t really care about that person’s concerns after all.

How to answer “what is your passion for your career?

Are easy to relate to your professional career or accompanying to where you’ve taken your professional career. Avoid answering with emotional or too of personal passions. For example, the interviewer won’t be able to do much when you share your passion for a doll collection.