4 Autobiography and Influences
This chapter is about constructing a detailed self-profile. Its work will help you recognize the most significant marks you carry, and the highly significant people who have made a special impact. They can be friends, family members, or even characters in fiction. Each has helped liberate an important aspect of yourself. Some you will already know about, others may come as a surprise. Each such person leads us to discover aspects of ourselves and to fulfill our innate potential.
Though it is important to recognize and use your core experiences, this book asks you to write very little that is directly autobiographical. Whenever you find indirect ways to explore issues of personal importance, however, your work will ...
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