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[[File:Narcissus.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Look! It’s the best me! I ''think''.]]
[[File:Narcissus.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Look! It’s the best me! I ''think''.]]
Don’t dream it — ''be'' it.<br>}}{{shitmaxim|Be the best version of yourself}}, unless your mortal shortcoming should be a lack of judgment, self-awareness or common sense — which, if your susceptibility for fatuous [[LinkedIn]] wisdom is anything to go by, it is.  
Don’t dream it — ''be'' it.<br>}}{{shitmaxim|Be the best version of yourself}}, unless your mortal shortcoming should be a lack of judgment, self-awareness or common sense — which, if your susceptibility for fatuous [[LinkedIn]] wisdom is anything to go by, it will be.  


And if it ''is'', sailor, you are hardly well-placded to judge ''which'' version of yourself is best, are you?  
And if it ''is'', sailor, you are hardly well-placed to judge ''which'' version of yourself is best, are you?  


Now, maybe there’s a ''better'' version of yourself out there — one with a keener sense of self-awareness, for example; a realistic appreciation of the manifest ways in which you disappoint those you hold dear, and soundly fail to animate anyone else — but, in our working theory, remember, that version isn’t the one you’re presently being. ''That'' version you might not recognise, even it if it hit you in the face which, if the two of you met, there’s a fair chance it would.  
Now, maybe there’s a ''better'' version of yourself out there — one with a keener sense of self-awareness, for example; a realistic appreciation of the manifest ways in which you disappoint those you hold dear, and soundly fail to animate anyone else — but, in our working theory, remember, that version isn’t the one you’re presently being. ''That'' version you might not recognise, even it if it hit you in the face which, if the two of you met, there’s a fair chance it would.