Lessons in becoming myself pdf Lessons in Becoming Myself is a bit of a misnomer because Ellen Burstyn shares how she became authentic. In the end each of us has to do that for ourselves, usually not following lessons of others. What the book does do is provide an excellent chronology of events that reveal a real person who can share experiences without attaching value judgments. The result is a complete story which elicits the basis for these six unrehearsed classroom lessons were created by Prof. Diane Larsen­Freeman of the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont and appear...