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Category: Identity

  • The Metaphor of a Whole New World

    I love this idea/concept.  I love it because I have been introduced to a whole new world of discovery and learning.  And when it’s new – it’s like an undiscovered world filled with adventure and new experiences. When you are exploring a whole new world, there are no maps.  You…

  • The Art of What You Do

    What is it that you do?  For some people, that’s quite a hard question.  Some don’t even don’t know what they do – much less the artistic or creative aspect of what they do. I was reading today about the creative energy that encompasses the work that we do.  No…

  • Growth Feels Good

    ….or at least it should.  You know what I’m talking about – when you are learning and growing.  It’s almost like your mind is expanding – right between your ears.  It’s that feeling of taking in information and new experiences.  Actually, it’s not just your mind expanding, but your sense…

  • Sex and Identity

    Have you ever thought about your sexual identity?  I’m not talking about sexual orientation or sexual characteristics.  I am talking about your sexual identity formation.  I have never thought about mine until I started studying it and reading it.  I can’t talk about identity formation without studying sex and identity…

  • Did Not Do Well In School

    Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school.  Many of them didn’t really discover what they could d0 – and who they really were – until they’d left school and recovered from their education. The Element p. 9 – Sir Ken Robinson A…

  • You’re All Identity Specialists

    ….or at least you all are becoming identity specialists. Facebook – at their conference this week – just laid out new features.  One of which is even more connectedness with friends and their likes.  You will be able to know so much more about your friends, and other people know…

  • Identity Projection

    I have written about identity projections.  You can do a search on my blog for it and a few posts show up.  I’ve talked about it in posts, but I’ve never written a post about it. I have used this idea of identity projection to represent the Jamesian me.  A…

  • The Psychology of a Geek

    Psychology; Noun 1 : the science of mind and behavior 2 a : the mental or behavioral characteristics of an individual or group b : the study of mind and behavior in relation to a particular field of knowledge or activity 3 : a theory or system of psychology <Freudian psychology> <the psychology…

  • Last Name Identity

    I know it’s quite a simple concept and your last name is your identity.  What I want to focus on though is the fact that when you talk about elementary school through high school – when you refer to a friend from those years, you refer to them with their…

  • Reality Show About You

    If you were to film a reality show about you, what aspect of your life would you film?  I mean reality shows film pretty much everything about someone’s life, but they film from a certain perspective.  So if a reality show was filmed about you – what would the angle…

  • Marketing to Insecurities

    Have you noticed that many of the marketing messages have to do with pointing out your insecurities?  Think about it.  If you have colored teeth, stinky armpits, marks on your face, bad breath, or you’re just not cool – all you have to do is buy whitening toothpaste, deodorant, proactiv,…

  • Stigmatized Failure

    What do you think about failure?  What do you think about this idea that there is value in failure? We have stigmatized failure.  We don’t like it.  We’ve been conditioned to hate it.  We’ve been “educated” against it.  We’re such functional dualists that we can’t think about failure coexisting with…