How To Be Better at Being Yourself

Jane Tawel
11 min readSep 5, 2019

If you are like I, we are all reading lots of what might be termed “self-help” guides from people we don’t know. We do this to be “happier” or “better”, but we keep finding that the sages have always had it right — happiness is paradoxically, never “out there” but is still somehow always “just out of reach”. And being “better” at something in hopes of a more fulfilling tomorrow, means we aren’t happy with whatever we might have today and that we discount whatever we were yesterday. That isn’t to say we curl up in a self-serving ball and defend our right to be ignorant or mediocre. But our goal…

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Jane Tawel

Still not old enough to know better. Enjoys philosophy, spirituality, poetry, books of all genres.Often torn between encouragement & self-directed chastisement.