Erin

“We tend to think of our personalities as fixed and solid. We think of our likes and our dislikes, our beliefs, our nationalities, our political affiliations and religious convictions, our mannerisms, our sexual predilections, etc, as set. As us. But the reality is, most of the things we think of as us are learned habits and patterns and are entirely malleable….

Will Smith is no more real than Paul. They’re both characters that were invented, practiced, and performed. Reinforced and refined by friends and loved ones in the external world. What you think of as yourself is a fragile construct.”
― Will Smith, Will