Being the best version of yourself distracts you from knowing who you are.

The Pressure to Become a “Better Self” Is Making You Forget What It Means to Be Free.

The injunctions to become a “super-self”—autonomous, aligned, high-performing, and serene—distract us from the essential:

Thinking about what it truly means to be oneself.

Not a polished self.
Not a “resilient” self.
Not a self “on a journey.”

But a free self—one that breaks away from what is expected of it.

Because behind their benevolent appearance, today’s educational and personal development norms reproduce exactly the same determinisms that everyone claims to be fighting against:

– adapting to an unjust system
– conforming to a socially approved emotional standard
– believing that happiness comes from self-adjustment, never from disruption

To think freely today is to refuse to conform to what presents itself as neutral, protective, or self-evident.

It is to give yourself the right not to be “okay,”
not to get “better,”
not to be “the best version of yourself” (which doesn’t exist),
and most of all:

to question why that has become a duty.