how are you talking about yourself today?
McAdams makes an important point about identity: It is a story you tell about yourself to make sense out of what has happened in the past and the kind of person you are now. From this perspective, it is not essential that the story be true.
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Our identity, then, is not, after all, something we can bestow on ourselves. We cannot discover or create an identity in isolation, merely through some kind of internal monologue. Rather, it is negotiated through dialogue with the moral values and beliefs of some community. We find ourselves in and through others. “We never get to the bottom of our
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As babies, for example, how our parents or caregivers treat us imprints us with an ‘attachment style’ that governs how we relate to others for the rest of our life. Their feedback, verbal and nonverbal, deposits the first layers of sediments in what become our ‘limiting beliefs’ about ourselves and the world, ideas that get further reinforced by sc
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Other people’s perception of you is a direct response to how you talk about yourself. Therefore, by taking control of this narrative you can make it easier for people to see you in the way that you want to be seen.
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it’s on you to narrate any cohesion to your existence.
There are a lot of benefits to being good at that narration. Describe your “calling” convincingly and you've defined a new game that others want to watch and play. But it’s a catch-22: if you spend all your time constantly sketching (probably quickly outdated) pictures of your thinking on the bi... See more
There are a lot of benefits to being good at that narration. Describe your “calling” convincingly and you've defined a new game that others want to watch and play. But it’s a catch-22: if you spend all your time constantly sketching (probably quickly outdated) pictures of your thinking on the bi... See more
the person’s narrative identity.’