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{{a|shitmaxim|“[[Be the best version of yourself]]”}}{{shitmaxim|Be the best version of yourself}}, unless your Shakespearean flaw is lack of judgment, self-awareness or common sense, of course. Which, if I know you like I think I do, it is.  
{{a|shitmaxim|“[[Be the best version of yourself]]”<br>}}{{shitmaxim|Be the best version of yourself}}, unless your Shakespearean flaw is lack of judgment, self-awareness or common sense, of course. Which, if I know you like I think I do, it is.  


If it ''is'', sailor, you are in no position to judge which version of yourself is the best one out there. So you’re screwed. You could ask a friend you trust — but your judgment of your friends isn’t much better, right, so that won’t work either.
If it ''is'', sailor, you are in no position to judge which version of yourself is the best one out there. So you’re screwed. You could ask a friend you trust — but your judgment of your friends isn’t much better, right, so that won’t work either.


But assume it isn’t. Let’s grant for a moment that you are self-aware enough to acknowledge your fixable shortcomings. You know them, and you can fix them. So have you? Or was it only your [[life coach]]’s wit and wisdom — vouchsafed to you through the good offices of [[LinkedIn]] — that brought you to this epiphany?
But assume it isn’t. Let’s grant for a moment that you are self-aware enough to acknowledge your fixable shortcomings. You know them, and you can fix them. So have you? Or was it only your [[life coach]]’s wit and wisdom — vouchsafed to you through the good offices of [[LinkedIn]] — that brought you to this epiphany?

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Crappy advice you find on LinkedIn™

“Be the best version of yourself”

An occasional paean to the empty-headed aspirational gems that gush from from LinkedIn’s wellspring of bunk.
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Be the best version of yourself , unless your Shakespearean flaw is lack of judgment, self-awareness or common sense, of course. Which, if I know you like I think I do, it is.

If it is, sailor, you are in no position to judge which version of yourself is the best one out there. So you’re screwed. You could ask a friend you trust — but your judgment of your friends isn’t much better, right, so that won’t work either.

But assume it isn’t. Let’s grant for a moment that you are self-aware enough to acknowledge your fixable shortcomings. You know them, and you can fix them. So have you? Or was it only your life coach’s wit and wisdom — vouchsafed to you through the good offices of LinkedIn — that brought you to this epiphany?

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