Opening page…
What did school teach you to be that you're still unlearning?
Being shaped by a system need not mean it ever understood the person it was shaping.
Your answer
A little context
Someone in a meeting asks a question, and before you have thought about it you are scanning the room for what the person in charge wants to hear. Or you finish a book and feel an urge to know what grade it would get. Habits like these were learned somewhere, and for many people it was at a desk in a row.
Nearby questions
- The bundle that calls itself ILook for the part of you that watches your thoughts. If you cannot catch it, was it ever there?
- What do you owe the child you used to be?Your body, your memories and your values have all changed since then. Some of that child's hopes are still waiting on you.
- What makes you you?A perfect copy of you could wake up tomorrow with your memories, your habits and your love for your people, certain that it is you.
- Would you want to remember everything?Forgetting can feel like a loss of truth or a condition of becoming someone new.
- What flaw would you refuse to have fixed?What looks like damage from the outside may be carrying part of a person's identity.
