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Identity Crisis: Why Limiting Yourself to Your Career Is a Problem

Sonntag, 1. November 2026 · 8 min

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Identity Crisis: Why Defining Yourself by Your Career Is a Problem

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One way to develop a healthier relationship with your career may be to visualize its end. “The party’s going to finish,” says HBS Professor and co-author (with Oprah Winfrey) of "Build the Life You Want" Arthur C. Brooks. Here are some steps you can take to mentally and emotionally prepare for the inevitable.

People in business play their own form of identity politics
Identities based on fear (of death)
What to do: a death meditation
A 9-part meditation you can try

"Build the Life You Want": amazon.com/Build-Life-You-Want-Science/dp/0593…

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