Be the best version of yourself

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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?