The Iconic Self

Minjarrah | Author & Creator | The Iconic Self

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@jackmoses0 This is cute advice, but a lot of people were just surviving childhood, so reach might be a little more limited than you think.

[Jack Krucial @JackKrucial]

Manifestation, 10 year goals, affirmation...

All of these are a huge cope for not taking action...

You can tell yourself you're a stud in the mirror every morning,

But your subconscious knows whether you're truly in the arena... You can't finesse your psyche.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@luluneverstops @JackKrucial I’d take this a step further by saying imagination and belief are nothing without the identity to support it. The focus should not be on the thing, but on becoming the person who gets the thing. As he says, you can’t outperform your psyche. Self-identity precedes everything.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

Women could benefit greatly from a foray into the male-coded world of self-development.

The bros are out here with literal handbooks for life while women are still being hoodwinked by manifestation coaches, celebrity doctors and messages from chanelled beings 🤦🏼‍♀️

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

Forget the vision board, the affirmations, the scripting and all the ‘laws’ of manifestation.

If you’re not focused on becoming the person who has the things, then you’ll never get them. Or if by chance you do get them, they won’t last.

Identity precedes outcome every time.

[Melvin Luu @luluneverstops]

I think “burnout” is the result of chasing things you don’t actually want.

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on why searching for your "true self" is a mistake:

Žižek argues that the pursuit of a true inner self is ultimately misguided. Deep introspection, he suggests, often reveals only disturbing or chaotic fantasies.

"Don't look for your inner self. You'll only find deep shit."

Instead of searching for an authentic core, Žižek believes genuine personal growth comes from embracing an external mask, a chosen social role.

"The only way to overcome yourself is to identify with your mask."

To illustrate this, he references the 1960 Rossellini film General Della Rovere.

The film tells the story of a poor man in occupied Italy who is caught by the Nazis. Because he resembles a famous resistance leader, General Della Rovere, the Nazis, who have already killed the real General, force him to pretend to be the General in prison to trick the resistance.

But something unexpected happens. The man identifies so deeply with the role that he refuses to cooperate with the Nazis. He is ultimately shot publicly as General Della Rovere.

Žižek calls this "good alienation." The man's "real self" as a poor beggar mattered less than his complete identification with the heroic persona. Through that total commitment to an outward role, he achieved a kind of moral greatness his "authentic" self never could.

The takeaway is counterintuitive but powerful: true freedom doesn't emerge from endlessly excavating your private, internal world. It emerges when you prioritise your outward actions and commitments. When you fully commit to becoming something greater than what you started as.

What matters is what you choose to embody.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@erichustls How to saturate social media with mindless rubbish and ruin the internet forever. This is precisely why everyone (with a brain and a soul) is tapping out.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@CCPISASSH0E Only Americans continue to make it about colour and race. Literally nobody else in the whole wide world sees colour as an issue anymore. Grow up!

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@michelle_byoung We read Flowers in the Attic, every Judy Blume novel and watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre all between 10-12 years old… and that was our standard entertainment.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@newstart_2024 I grew up in the sun, chronically exposed and sunburnt my whole life. Occasionally we would put natural zinc on our nose if we were going to be out in the sun for a long while. My friend’s parents who were doctors and slathered themselves in SPF50 both died from sun cancer 🥴

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@TylerAlterman My daughter (27) is autistic. Since around 6 months old we observed her communicating with unseen others which she later referred to as ‘The Gang’. She can’t explain any further but to this day she still hangs out ‘telepathically’ with the gang.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@heavensbvnny Don’t have kids, for one. Also, be single.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@Solyricon There is no sign. Just stay single.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@MmisterNobody This is assuming you’ve got good parents. I couldn’t care less about either of them.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@uncledoomer Give any child a book. Boy or girl. Give them all the books and watch them!

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@schizohustler Let’s be real: all men are gay.

[The Iconic Self @minjarrah]

@nicoleshedtwt I’ve probably eaten more pears than the average person and I can’t explain why. I don’t necessarily love them but I have given them a good hot go and I don’t know why. I mean, I like the look of them?