![Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/steven-pressfield-quotes-91923-our-job-in-this-life-is.png)
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
– Steven Pressfield
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