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episode 3: 4 Ways to Practice Being Yourself: Finding Happiness Through Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
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This podcast audio will offer some lessons and 4 practical steps on how to practice being yourself every day inspired by two of the greatest writers of all time: Oscar Wilde (the Picture of Dorian Gray) and David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest).
Who hasn’t wondered what the best ways are to find happiness? The journey through life itself can be happy or sad depending on whether you might be an inherent optimist or an inherent pessimist. Oscar Wilde offers some very interesting insights into how we all might find true happiness from being ourselves. Sometimes this will require you to step outside of your comfort zone, but the benefits from that short-term pain can yield a significant amount of long-term gain. See below video and thoughts on 4 concrete ways to practice being yourself…it may just help you find lasting happiness…
Overview:
There are countless examples on how you might practice embracing who you are and being yourself. Below are just three examples you might consider:
1. Embrace a new job that may be different than what others expect from us. Perhaps the job is even in a new city or a new country and we might feel afraid that we won’t be accepted. At a minimum, you’d learn a lot about the new region and may even find yourself enjoying the new city and culture even more than your previous home. Oscar Wilde left Ireland and Britain after being released from hard labor in prison and found happiness in France.
2. Go on that date you’re hesitant about because, after all, the only thing you have to lose is an hour of your time and you could gain a lifelong friend or partner. You might even use Bumble to find friends and business connections, as we analyzed in a previous post on the best social media companies today.
3. Take that vacation while you’re still healthy. Time is working against us all and one of the many lessons from 2020 might be to “not wait for tomorrow what can be done today” since the future is always uncertain.
4. Think of another idea unique to you. Think hard.
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