> I really don’t understand why we need to be so fixated in becoming this mostly unattainable, predictable, hard to maintain, yet boring and repetitive super-version of ourselves.
it is because in the technological age, we have come to view ourselves as machines to optimize rather than humans with beautiful unpredictability, passion, intuition, creativity, not being hyper-productive, etc.
I'm not so sure it's the technology age per se, but instead a handful of people in this current age for whom "personal optimization" works well. They sell it. We buy it. And keep buying it even tho' it doesn't work all that well for the rest of us. False gods will do that to ya.
it is because in the technological age, we have come to view ourselves as machines to optimize rather than humans with beautiful unpredictability, passion, intuition, creativity, not being hyper-productive, etc.