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Working Identity:
People of all ages are happiest and best able to deploy their talents when they are confident that, standing behind them, there are one or more trusted persons who will come to their aid should difficulties arise.
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Working Identity:
…often it is strangers who help us make sense of where we are going and who we will become.
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Working Identity:
…we make sense of chaotic changes by infusing events with special meaning and weaving them into coherent stories about who we are becoming.
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Working Identity:
Moments of insight – the culmination of meaning in a brief time span – tend to occur when we are relaxed, when we put aside our problem for a while, or when we are doing something out of character.
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Working Identity:
Our stories are not only for private consumption. They also help others make sense of what may seem like nonsensical actions, such as quitting a prestigious job instead of hanging on for early retirement.
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Working Identity:
Defining moments make it clear that there is no turning back.
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Working Identity:
Getting fired or receiving a bad performance review are classic unfreezing events. Events like these defy the view of ourselves as competent professionals; they can make us realize we are not in the driver’s seat…
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Working Identity:
…we learn about ourselves by examining what we do when events forced our hand…
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Working Identity:
In almost every story of career change come to fruition, there is a palpable moment when things click into place…
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Working Identity:
The full emotional and cognitive complexity of the change process can only be digested with moments of detachment and time for reflective observation.
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