Building Identity Capital
This makes intuitive sense. If your identity is entirely tied to one aspect of who you are—whether it be your job, your net worth, or your “success” as a parent—one snag, even if it’s out of your control, can shatter your self-esteem.
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
The burden of self-promotion isn’t only on creative people, obviously; much like Albers’s 65-year-old mom, we’re all expected to perform this labor now. If we’re fully employed, we know that the comfort of health insurance and a salary could be gone at any moment if our company decides to pivot or lay us off. Tech platforms, too, come and go, and t... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
I so often meet people who focused on maximizing a narrow set of life outcomes instead of forming their identity, and that becomes much harder to do when you’re locked in mid-career. Youth is a privilege: use it to experiment, test the boundaries of the world, and make stupid mistakes.
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
You are not your job. And soon, you won't have one.
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