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What It Feels Like to Begin (The Phenomenology of Choosing Yourself for the First Time)

  1. Hook slide — What It Feels Like to Begin (The Phenomenology of Choosing Yourself for the First Time)

    What It Feels Like to Begin (The Phenomenology of Choosing Yourself for the First Time)

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  2. The insight — The moment of beginning, of actually choosing oneself for the first time or the hundredth time, has a specific phenom...

    The moment of beginning, of actually choosing oneself for the first time or the hundredth time, has a specific phenom...

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  3. The truth — What It Feels Like to Begin (The Phenomenology of Choosing Yourself for the First Time)

    The truth about what it feels like to begin (the phenomenology of choosing yourself for the first time)

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  4. Key takeaway — The moment of beginning, of actually choosing oneself for the first time or the hundredth time, has a specific phenom...

    The moment of beginning, of actually choosing oneself for the first time or the hundredth time, has a specific phenom...

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The moment of beginning, of actually choosing oneself for the first time or the hundredth time, has a specific phenomenology. This piece examines what it feels like to act from genuine self-regard…

 

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