keyword genes none of us are born as a…
Page 145 keyword self keyword genes none of us are born as a blank slate. Each one of us came into this world with a distinct and unique personality and identity that can be shaped and molded and is destined to be shaped and molded. We may be born with unlimited choices, but many of those choices are ones that we have a predilection for. We have a specific destiny that is personal. We have a job to do, a calling to an act, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle and we're stuck with it. Our job in this lifetime is not the shape ourselves to some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business.
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)