The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 179 of 254

The pearl view of character

Pearl-like assumptions about the self are perhaps most stubborn when it comes to the idea of character. Almost everyone seems to believe that their personality is a consistent combination of traits which is, paradoxically, both unique and classifiable in any number of different schema.

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