I've come across with the phrase below:
When have I felt like the real me?
I searched online dictionaries but I didn't find anything.
So, could you please tell me what the meaning of "feels like the real me" is?
The fuller text is:
What comes naturally to me? For just a moment, ignore what you have
been taught. Ignore what society has told you. Ignore what others
expect of you. Look inside yourself and ask, “What feels natural to
me? When have I felt alive? When have I felt like the real me?” No
internal judgments or people-pleasing. No second-guessing or
self-criticism. Just feelings of engagement and enjoyment. Whenever
you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
Atomic Habits By James Clear
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Best Answer
The context seems to be advising the reader to strive to avoid feeling unnatural, false or unauthentic; to ask themselves "what is the real me?" (as distinguished from "the false me"). To feel like the real me would be to feel that you were being your true self, disregarding, for the moment, what that actually means for any given individual.
Books about self-help, motivation, popular psychology, and related topics, often contain uses of personal pronouns like this ("the real me", "the true you", "the best me I can be" etc).