--- ## Highlights There are many versions of you constantly competing for dominance in achieving their own goals. Frequently opposing one another. The texture of their goals varies according to the time of day, what you last ate, and how you slept the night before, among other things. Trying to accurately predict the goals of your future selves is elusive at best. Meanwhile, you do your best to smooth over these differences and pretend as though there is a singular unified you with fixed goals. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2qcbhrz6a2bwf5z12ks1thf)) Every minute of every day, the Citadel of Bryans work to achieve their self-interested objectives. Each one feeling compelled and justified. Each placing more value on now over later, on present over future health. Rarely a thought for each other. Each being ever so slightly detached from the consequences. Simultaneously sharing an identity while also detaching themselves from the whole. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2qcchqqxckbzpnz8vd93n9v))