The Cost of Becoming Who You Were Told To Be

By John El-Mokadem

Why familiar suffering often feels safer than an unknown freedom.

“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.” — Lao Tzu

What if the things that excite you have more power than the things you are afraid of leaving?

So many of us are stuck doing things we don’t want to be doing.

But we do them because we’ve been told we have to.

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First published on our Substack, Breakthrough That, on 26 May 2026.