Not caring what people think vs impressing them

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7. Thanks for sharing

I don't have nearly the troublesome side that you describe, though I do have different parts of my personality, and some collide. Maybe that makes things harder, as opposed to a person where everything aligns well. My father once said to me, something like, you just like being yourself don't you? And I said of course, why would I want to be someone else? I still don't know what he was getting at, except maybe that many people including him take on a persona to be more likeable, like tell jokes, or flatter people which he did a lot.