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Tag: Identity

  • The Identity Formation of Rampage Jackson

    It was pretty fascinating to listen to Quinton Jackson talk about his UFC alter-ego Rampage Jackson.  He knows Rampage.  He talks about Rampage in third person – not in a way that is not integrated into who he is, but in a way that he knows that he can’t control…

  • My Boston Identity

    I watched Boston beat Orlando tonight – while having lovely dinner with DC. Now, I am a Laker fan.  My Father-in-Law is a huge Laker fan.  It’s a requirement to be in my in-law’s family.  I will cheer the Lakers everytime – except for when they play Boston. You know…

  • Circumvent Identity Formation

    You can circumvent the identity formation process of someone else by not allowing them to freely explore and express their own identity.  When you superimpose your standards or tell someone who to be and how to act, you condition them and teach them to perform.  It is not identity forming. …

  • Everything Forms

    I can’t believe that I haven’t written about this yet.  A key to identity formation is that everything forms.  Everything has the potential to construct and shape your identity.  Every book that you read, tv show that you watch, song you hear or sing, relationship that you’re in and experience…

  • You Can’t Try To Be Who You Are

    ….that was a line from an article that I read today.  It was an article about a band, and they were criticizing the band for sounding too much like —- themselves.  The response was that you can’t try to be who you are.  You just are who you are.  You…

  • Integrated Selves and Identity

    Each one of you is an integrated self – every single self that you’ve created – every single self that is truly you – each self is integrated.  The sum total is your identity.  Each individual part self – could also be your identity.  Each piece by itself or in…

  • Family and Identity

    Whether you have a close family or a disconnected family, it’s impossible to separate your identity from your family.  In fact – no matter what you’re family is like – strong, dysfunctional (and every family is), big family, small family, they shape your identity. Whether you like it or not;…

  • Identity and Yours

    Your identity is yours.  But someone else can take it and use it if they get to it first.  I asked a friend this week – who has his @firstlast name as his twitter name – if he was the also the same “firstlast” with a 1 at the end…

  • Identity Work

    Working on your identity is deep soul work.  On the one hand, identity work deals with the clothes that you wear, the positions that you have, and the way that you project your identity.  That’s the easy stuff. On the other hand, identity is the reforming of the deep and…

  • 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…

  • 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…