Genes, Environment, and Randomness covers a lot of causes!
Staying true to yourself is not a good idea if you have an inaccurate self-image. It will cause great harm.
On the other hand you can’t in fact shape your identity around arbitrary desires about who you want to be.
There are constraints to what is possible for you become, especially if you care about being happy.
Knowing and respecting those constraints can be seen as a more positive interpretation of “being true to oneself”. Interpreting it this way, there is no ‘one true identity’, but there is definitely a sense of who you are, and who you it’s better not to try to be.
Staying true to yourself is not a good idea if you have an inaccurate self-image. It will cause great harm.
On the other hand you can’t in fact shape your identity around arbitrary desires about who you want to be.
There are constraints to what is possible for you become, especially if you care about being happy.
Knowing and respecting those constraints can be seen as a more positive interpretation of “being true to oneself”. Interpreting it this way, there is no ‘one true identity’, but there is definitely a sense of who you are, and who you it’s better not to try to be.