Your past isn't a burden, it's proof of change. Compare yourself to who you were months ago and you'll see growth. Einstein called the divisions between past, present, and future an illusion, and psychology backs it up: they coexist in how you frame your life.
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You want to get really good at framing your past so that it's an asset rather than a liability. You also want to regularly recognize how different you are from your past self. Even if you went back to the beginning of 2024, at the beginning of this year, you are not the same person you were at the beginning of 2024. Look at who I am today and say, how am I different from who I was 3 and a half months ago? Very powerful to recognize, appreciate, and create The differences between your current self and your past self. When I'm talking about the psychology of time, your past, your present, and your future— and by the way, even Albert Einstein said that the dividing lines between these is an illusion. All of these actually exist all at once psychologically. Who I am in the present is completely based on how I frame my past as well as the future that is pulling me forward.