A belief in the morally good self can give a person hope to keep trying in poor circumstances.
Alternatively, it could be fuel for a kind of existential crisis if your life doesn’t match up to your “true self.”
More pressure to "be yourself" or "find yourself" can add to that stress—especially in the self-help realm, where the existence of a “true self,” is a given, not regarded as a cognitive tendency or bias.
You don't have to stop believing in it. You just have to be aware of it as a bias.
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