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You don__ know anyone at the party, so you don__ want to go. You don__ like cottage cheese, so you haven__ eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don__ kid yourself: it__ also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it__ really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy.You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can__ write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that__ really not you. It__ not ingrained. It__ not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like.If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it__ the only way.Set fire to your old self. It__ not needed here. It__ too busy shopping, gossiping about others, and watching days go by and asking why you haven__ gotten as far as you__ like. This old self will die and be forgotten by all but family, and replaced by someone who makes a difference.Your new self is not like that. Your new self is the Great Chicago Fire__verwhelming, overpowering, and destroying everything that isn__ necessary.