Who are you?

Content Warning: This blogpost addresses the reader directly, and encourages active introspection. If you are in a bad mood, you may want to read this post later.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?" is a question I have asked myself lately, and I find it a powerful introspection tool:

Who is you? What are you? What defines yourself?

Your response will be different depending on context. "Describe yourself" will get different answers depending on if you are in a job interview, on stage or with a friend of a friend. But in this case you are asking this to yourself. No one will be judging your answer.

One could not answer this question fully in a billion words. But trying to answer it will let you focus on what is the most important to you. Maybe what you would like the others to see in you? Try to keep it not about what you would want to be, but rather the current version of yourself.

One last thing: I learned while writing for this blog is that an idea will be much more refined and clear once you write it down somewhere. That is why, if you want to answer this question, I would encourage you to do so by text. You can do that below.

Remember that there is no wrong answer, and less so a definitive one.

So, who are you?

The content of this box is not recorded anywhere. If you want to save your answer to revisit it later, please use your note-taking software of choice.

What does this mean?

Once you have answered this question, you can use what you are writing to learn more about yourself:

• Is what you wrote positive or negative?
• Are there aspects of yourself you could connect together?
• Are you happy with your ordering?

Follow-up question: Do you do what you would like to do for others to see you this way? Would a change in demeanour be worth considering?

If you are unhappy with your answers, you have a whole lifetime to change. Changing things like this takes an absurd amount of time.

Remember that you are and will always be valid.