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Jihyun Kim

Jihyun Kim

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how to delete your old self

3 min readNov 24, 2025
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Most people mistake change as a matter of willpower, but it’s actually a matter of how you design your identity

What is deleting the old self?

The act of removing a system that is no longer valid and installing a new structure, rather than denying the past.

Your identity is an iterative product, not a set of memories

It is said that the existence of the country is created by accumulated memories.
More importantly, the recognition of repeated behavior patterns.
The brain tends to define frequent behavior as identity and judge that infrequent behavior is irrelevant to me.
The first step in deleting the old self is the release of the repeating pattern.
Don’t try to erase your memory; cut off the action circuit

2 Memory and persistent stages of memory in two ways

They’re preserving two opposing memories
One is a mechanically memorized memory that possesses memory in facts such as events experienced in one’s personal life.

These memories are essentially the components of human consciousness that give a clear answer to who I am, but what really matters is the operation of the voluntary system. This is because the country…

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