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What does it mean?
Borges describes how a life's accumulated experiences eventually reveal a person's true self.
In plain terms
Life experiences eventually reveal your true self.
What can you take from it?
Your choices shape your identity over time.

Where it applies

  • reflecting on career
  • life review
  • creative work

Putting it to work

  • portfolio building
  • self-reflection
  • memoir writing

Questions to consider

  • What does your work say about you?
  • Who are you becoming?

Another view

Self-discovery is not guaranteed by age.

More from Jorge Luis Borges

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