How old were you when you truly found yourself?

Question

How do you know when you have found yourself?

What if you don't like yourself?

Answer 1

Absolutely sure that I knew who I was by age 13. Tried to be like other people and fit in with certain people in my teens - got into status competition in my 20s and 30s, but my true me has been intact since 13.

I made decisions and realizations at that time that continue to hold true to this day. I'm now in my 40s.

Answer 2

Around the age of 25. I'm almost 30 now. I'm sure I will change more and grow more with time.

Answer 3

I am 41 and have just started on that path. Just sit down and lists what you want to do in life and what kind of person you want to be. Work towards those goals. It is okay to change things though...

Answer 4

hahah I don't even know. I don't even think i have yet. But i like myself. AND I LOVE YOU TOO. =)

Answer 5

honey, it ain't happened yet, I am still chasing my tail!

Answer 6

Big knowledge comes from answering big questions.
Unless you're a control freak who has given up the real and has a lifetime job of selling your dictatorship to others, so they won't find out you're hopeless, you deal with the eal first. That means at some point your start figuring out that other people aren't playing by the rules, can't all be ignored and aren't much use to you.
What you mean by "finding yourself" means thinking for yourself, doubting and questioning everything and not caring what anyone else thinks, just taking note of it.
It means thinking and evaluating for yourself; knowing when you have the science of something and when you lack category-level definitions of how things work inside.
Everybody comes to this, if they ever do grow up, by stages.
I knew at 7 or 8 I was able to think for myself...no credit to me, I was born not caring what other people thought, figuring there was nothing I couldn't know or do if I applied myself to it.
The next step was knowing that although I couldn't define
definition" as I now can as the 5--6 working essentials in prioritized order that are in everything natural and are the parts of a man-made anything, I knew that was what I needed to find.
I knew that when I was 15.
At 26, I knew what I did best and a lot about what I didn't want to do.
Then at 41 1/2, I became the second person to derive
reality's basis as a philosophy, unaided.
Those are the steps to finding yourself. Just knowing when you REALLY know something and when you don't--that's the key, after accepting your perfectibility as a thinker given enough time and the right methods.

It's called "self assertion"--asserting your separate person in the real space-time, then learning to deal with people who are at all sorts of stages if immaturity, confidence, capability and pretense.

Answer 7

well, i THINK, i found myself already, because i think i found what i was going to find, but not too long ago, i figured out that i like having people around me, so, i think i might actually find out something else, or not, i just dont know, but one thing for sure, im not going to change anymore, if i learn something or not, it wont change me, i am and will be stuborn and ignorant, against everybody. im 17 by the way

Answer 8

I'm 32 when I found out who I am. After I lost jobs, being rejected, and faced problems with family. When I had to deal with these issues and start to recover the depression I had, I realized the kind of person I am. Right now I'm 33 and ready to face any obstacles that come in my way.

Answer 9

I have everything a man desires, and yet, Hmm. I'm missing out on something.

Answer 10

its when you start realising stuff about yourself . your likes and dislikes. its when you KNOW the things that make you happy and unhappy. its when you start understanding yourself and start trusting yourself. it happened for me when I was 15 but then again i matured early. it usualy happens when you are over puberty but others never end uop knowing themselves