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Ryan A Bush

Founder and Author, Designing the Mind, Asheville, North Carolina

Ryan A Bush is a practical philosopher, founder of Designing the Mind, and author of the forthcoming book, Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression (2024).

Written by Ryan A Bush

Hands sculpting a small, rough clay figure of a person’s head and torso against a blurred background.

The self

idea

When Nietzsche said ‘become who you are’, this is what he meant

Behind the philosopher’s cryptic phrase is an invocation to sculpt your ideal self out of the hard stone of your psyche

by Ryan A Bush