I often get frustrated by definitions like yours, because they are so recursive. Moving through your criteria, you want to be true to yourself (references ‘yourself’), achieve your goals (references ‘your goals’), improve yourself (references ‘yourself’), and not die (implicitly references the continued existence of your self).
Do you have any notion at all of what the self is that you’re trying to be true to and improve? Put another way, why would it be a tragedy if you died?
Please don’t take this as a personal attack—I don’t know you, and don’t dislike you. I just want to learn more about your reasoning.
I often get frustrated by definitions like yours, because they are so recursive. Moving through your criteria, you want to be true to yourself (references ‘yourself’), achieve your goals (references ‘your goals’), improve yourself (references ‘yourself’), and not die (implicitly references the continued existence of your self).
Do you have any notion at all of what the self is that you’re trying to be true to and improve? Put another way, why would it be a tragedy if you died?
Please don’t take this as a personal attack—I don’t know you, and don’t dislike you. I just want to learn more about your reasoning.