Ep 26 - Real, Ideal and Imaginary self - Concept of Self (Part 2)

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We are fascinating creatures! Aren't we?

We live in a world where most people find it hard to be their real selves and spend most of their time in the imaginary world or thinking about the ideal version of themselves.

And again, most of the time, the ideal, real, and imaginary versions of ourselves are significantly different from each other. That creates a huge mess in our minds.

Hasn't it happened with you that you have gone on a date with someone and you try to impress the other person and project yourself as an ideal version of yourself?

But in reality, you may be far away from that projection of yourself. You behaved in a particular way anyway because you wanted to impress someone. The person is impressed and you start dating and then conflicts start arising. You cannot fake your ideal self on a day-to-day basis for a long time. Your real self starts showing up and the other person may or may not like that version of you.

This is just one of the examples. We do the same in job interviews, marriage proposals, client meetings, and so on.

We fight to be who we are not! Or we present ourselves as someone we are not! And then we are unhappy!

In this episode, we build up from the basic on Concept of Self, our 2nd episode and try and understand:

What are the real, ideal, and imaginary selves of a human being?
How can one identify those?
How does it affect us when all these three versions of us are different from each other?
How we can bring them closer to each other?

Not sure if you can feel the energy of this episode while listening, this was our very first offline recording away from virtual video calls and we were excited to do it in-person.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Happy listening! :)

And if you haven't listened to Part 1 of Concept of self, you can listen to it here.

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