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“The tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.”
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“When you cling too tightly to one identity, you become brittle. Lose that one thing and you lose yourself.”
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“The key to mitigating these losses of identity is to redefine yourself such that you get to keep important aspects of your identity even if your particular role changes.”
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Image and identity have become increasingly important in our new economic order.
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A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it’s time to abandon some of your most treasured tools – and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.
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We foreclose on all kinds of life plans. Once you’ve committed to one, it becomes part of your identity, making it difficult to de-escalate.
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In some ways, identity foreclosure is the opposite of an identity crisis: instead of accepting uncertainty about who we want to become, we develop compensatory conviction and plunge head over heels into a career path.
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In large part, we are what we do, and our identity is closely connected with whatever we’re focused on, including our careers, relationships, projects, and hobbies. When we quit any of those things, we have to deal with the prospect of quitting part of our identity. And that is painful.
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When your identity is what you do, then what you do becomes hard to abandon, because it means quitting who you are.
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…we need to be careful about tying our identity to any single thing that we believe.
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