on not living a paper-thin life

This belief can exist only to the extent that you believe in the efficacy of judgment as a weapon of defense for your own authority.

leading my life, I am not striving for an impossible completion of who I am but for the possible and fragile coherence of who I am trying to be: to hold together and be responsive to the commitments that define who I take myself to be. Leading a satisfying life is not to achieve a state of consummation but to be engaged in what I do and put myself

Someone else trying to copy my methodology wouldn’t have that conviction.