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effort required to stretch his natural
boundaries is justified by seeing his
core personal project—igniting all those
minds—come to fruition.
At first blush, Free Trait Theory
seems to run counter to a cherished
piece of our cultural heritage.
Shakespeare’s oft-quoted advice, “To
thine own self be true,” runs deep in
our philosophical DNA. Many of us are
uncomfortable with the idea of taking
on a “false” persona for any length of
time. And if we act out of character by
convincing ourselves that our pseudoself
is real, we can eventually burn out
without even knowing why. The genius
of Little’s theory is how neatly it resolves
this discomfort. Yes, we are only
pretending to be extroverts, and yes,
such inauthenticity can be morally ambiguous
(not to mention exhausting),
but if it’s in the service of love or a
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