Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

In the same way, identities change in practice, as we start doing new things (crafting experiments), interacting with different people (shifting connections), and reinterpreting our life stories through the lens of the emerging possibilities (making sense).

recognize outdated identities—roles

a new range of possible selves,

Because, as Richard Pascale observes in Surfing the Edge of Chaos, “Adults are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.”

Career transitions follow a first-act-and-then-think sequence because who we are and what we do are so tightly connected.