'Self- made' or the Illusion of Individualism



Don’t get me wrong I have a great respect for ‘self-made’ people. I mean… just as much as for everyone else.

I am just always a bit puzzled about the statement they are introduced or introduce themselves with.

Just think about it: how can you be ‘self-made’ anything? When materially or biologically speaking ‘2’ is the minimum required for anything to manifest down here, … I mean business included! It is actually a universal rule we cannot escape from.

So if it is such an obvious belief that can be destroyed in 1 second, why holding on to it?
Usually this kind of belief is like ‘Santa Claus’ for the kids: it is a useful dream. And here, it is the dream that explains logically to yourself YOUR success as being ‘self-made’ by opposition to the others’ potential failures: it’s because YOU are different YOU are exceptional you are not just ‘made’ YOU are ‘SELF-MADE’ your success was not by accident… THAT would be scary! THAT would be THE nightmare!

But couldn’t it be evidence without being a nightmare?

Don’t we all have exceptional gifts that not only will but also time and circumstances help us or not to manifest?

If you think about it, soccer players or football players as good and recognized as they are nowadays would have been totally ignored in the 19th century. Now some of them are billionaires thanks to marketing teams and media platforms that appeared only in the 20th century!

You can see that there is a ‘right’ timing for all discoveries: each of them required the previous one but all of them are not exploitable.

If you are born with the gift of physical beauty or music in a place and time where it’s a sin to be beautiful, sing, play or dance then how will you manifest your gift? How will you even find out that you are gifted in something that your Society and Time hide, deny or simply ignore? How will you know you are a genius if nobody around sees, understands, values its manifestation? You won’t be successful for sure and you may even consider you are a failure.

So many more discoveries/gifts probably unlimited are sleeping denied or ignored in the human consciousness unless and until they can reveal themselves through a collective unconscious agreement and finally become knowledge, new technologies, new businesses or new art forms. Our History is a very long path from superstitions to science that keeps on moving.


We are definitely not ‘self-made’ we need the others to welcome our gift and team up with us to manifest it in a way or another for the benefit of all.

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