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What does it mean?
Changing identity transforms your entire self.
In plain terms
Who you are shapes everything.
What can you take from it?
Identity change changes all.

Where it applies

  • personal growth
  • rehabilitation
  • career shifts

Putting it to work

  • reflect on values
  • align actions
  • embrace change

Questions to consider

  • Who are you becoming?
  • What defines you?

Another view

External factors can also change your being without identity shifts.

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