[specialist]

I was deeply influenced by Marvin Minsky's Society of the Mind as a kid.

That along with my readings in Zen, Taoism, Buddhism, and the notion of paradoxes, I gave up trying to precisely define who I am and accept that it's contextual.

(Also Shakespeare's "All the world is a stage" and Ministry's "(Every day is) Halloween". Life is performance art. We're all wearing costumes.)

Just try to keep your different personas (son, father, coworker, lover, frat brother, gamer geek) separate in real life.

[doboyy]

On the last part, I think a major part of why therapy can be helpful is because you have the choice to not adopt different personas, which makes me wonder that issue is a large source of problems.

I'm not the first to say this, but I feel most like "myself" when nobody is watching.