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    Discovering the Real You (Spoiler Alert: There’s More to You than You Think)

    by Chris Hughes Sep 28, 2019 3 minutes
    Discovering the Real You (Spoiler Alert: There’s More to You than You Think) by Chris Hughes. Photograph of a hand with paint on it by Sharon McCutcheon
    Photograph by Sharon McCutcheon

    We are multi-colored stories, a masterpiece in the making; embrace your past and explore new experiences and ideas to fully understand your true self

    —

    This might be different advice than you are expecting to hear about discovering the real you. My first questions are: which ‘real you’? Who you are now? Or who you were ten years ago? Or the person you will be ten years from now? 

    I believe you must realize and have allowance for the

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