Impressions are a Pseudo-Greatness

What to avoid and what to build as you navigate your life’s path

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“You only get one chance to make a great impression.”

We’ve all heard this; the ideation of good first impressions is interwoven with some of our highest values in society.

This is folklore that morphed into the status of adage. To question this statement is to question the essentials; the fundamentals and the foundation.

Yet, if you were to ask what the essence of the first impression is, your ears will fall on the sounds of mouths roleplaying ventilators. If we challenge the very fabric we are taught to abide, we begin to understand that the impression is falsely held to a higher standard than the quality of good character and amazing work.

To say that a first impression is so important is to accept fantasy as the only metric on which to measure reality.

When we begin to challenge the platform on which impressions stand, we come to the realization that it has nothing to do with the following things:

• Actual wealth
• A meaningful life
• Any answers

Here is what I mean.