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What does it mean?
Identity is something you actively build through choices rather than a hidden treasure you find.
In plain terms
You make yourself who you are, you do not find yourself.
What can you take from it?
Take active responsibility for shaping your own identity.

Where it applies

  • career planning
  • self-help

Putting it to work

  • setting goals
  • building habits

Questions to consider

  • What parts of you are built?
  • Are you waiting to find yourself?

Another view

It overlooks how much genetics and environment shape who we become.

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