In this essay: - [ ] What others are optimising for - [ ] Self-image - [ ] Past determined - [ ] Goal determined - [ ] Ego driven - [ ] What is ego - [ ] The "I" in the thoughts of your head - [ ] Not possible to deny someone's experience - [ ] Determine what they gain from sharing - [ ] The habit of sticking to habits - [ ] Discomfort within life - [ ] Find the root of your beliefs - [ ] it is not cringe to write things down - [ ] like speakers write down metaphors or similes or analogies - [ ] Why do people find things "cringe" - [ ] social anxiety - [ ] surround by X people = become X person - [ ] any change from that results in breaking that identity