May 5, 2014
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SHOW NOTES: In the MYTH WARRIORS™ series we are targeting ideas to begin to assess whether they are credible or not (i.e., they are a myth, fallacy or even a lie). The target for this episode is, “Nobody can teach me who I am.”
“Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe attended the University of
Ibadan. In 1958, his groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart was
published. It went on to sell more than 12 million copies and been
translated into more than 50 languages. Achebe later served as the
David and Marianna Fisher University professor and professor of
Africana Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
He died on March 21, 2013, at age 82, in Boston,
Massachusetts.”
(http://www.biography.com/people/chinua-achebe-20617665#awesm=~oDpf0csGuWAzTf )
The larger quote for our episode is, “Nobody
can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am -
and what I need - is something I have to find out
myself.”
Option 1 - People can teach you who you are.
Option 2 - Nobody can teach you who you are.
Option 1 is seductive as it would be “easier” for someone else to
tell me and show me who I am and all I would have to do would be to
simply follow their instructions.
Option 2 is “harder” as it would require me to do all of the work
determining who I am (with no instructions to follow).
Yet, if
someone else teaches me who I am, then aren’t I simply a
reproduction (or copy) of them with no original
individuality? It
might be
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