I see myself as the same person I was at age 10, age 20, 30, etc.
That’s not correct. Physically I am a completely different set of cells. Mentally, emotionally, I have completely different ideas than I did before.
So why not think of myself as follows? I’m not a unitary being traveling through time. I’m a new person every day. A new employee showing up on the job for the first time, and I download a set of skills and ideas and talents into my head when I wake up. They’re just handed to me. They are not me, these things are just stuff that happens to be there. It’s like walking into a strange kitchen and looking for a coffee cup.
Show up for duty with a new set of eyes like this, and it almost becomes mandatory to make a change. Like a new hire at a company, I can look at my life and say “Well, why the fuck are things being done that way? That’s a bag full of dumb.” And I can change it.
This is poorly explained. I got the hint of the idea at dawn today, walking. Let’s see if writing it here and thinking about it develops the idea further.