Tag: Identity
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Hollywood and Truth
I know you read the title, and you probably think that there is no way that you can find truth in Hollywood. Hollywood is full of actors or fake identities. Hollywood is full of fake people. They pretend and play around so it’s all not true. I wrote a post…
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What You Obsess About
Well, if you’ve been reading this blog for a bit – you know what I’m going to say (Right Kahu Dan!). What you obsess about tells me so much about your identity. If you think about something so much to the point that you obsess about it – that’s your…
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Do You Want to Express Your Identity
Corporations will sell you the things that you can use to express your identity. All you have to do is buy their stuff. The thing is, they are the same ones that make you feel yucky about your current identity. They spend the money to make you feel fat and…
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The Culture of Want
We have only been living in a Culture of Want for about a hundred years. Only until we mechanized the production of thing did we start to market to people’s wants. Before that time, it was a Culture of Need. We only bought what we needed. We only built what…
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Identity and Emotions
The work of identity formation – creating and shaping identity can be so emotional. When you are working on who you are – it’s hard emotional work. We tend to wrap our identities around something – our work, our kids, our looks, our car – something. Whenever you put your…
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Projecting on an Identity
An identity projection – good thing. A projection on an identity – not a good thing.
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What Calms You?
What Calms You? Do you even need to be calm? Some of us live such fast-paced lives that we don’t even know that we need to be calm. That place where you are calm is a great place for shaping identity. When you are calm, you can freely think and…
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Twitter Validation
Evidently, there is this Twitter service that you can use that will validate whether a person is following you or some bot is following you. The bot can’t navigate the validation service I guess. So this service is suppose to validate the people that I follow or are following me.…
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Games and a Better You
I heard a talk from Dr. Jane McGonigal about gaming and game mechanics. She is a game researcher and studies this stuff, but she said a line that stood out to me – games helps to make a better you. Seeing as I study identity, I was interested in that.…
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Poverty and Identity
What are you doing about poverty? I guess you need to think that it is your problem before you would do anything about it. We all need to do something about. We all need to at least have an opinion about it. If you don’t feel like you need to…
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Knowing Your Story
For those of you that are trying to figure out your identity, one of the best ways to do so is by knowing your story. You would be surprised by how many people have forgotten their story. I have assigned a Life Map project for some of my classes that…
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Chunkin’ Rocks at a Sign
I don’t know if you watch Duck Dynasty, but we were fans from the first episode. It’s such a great show. There’s a line that one of the guys says – ….”that’s funner than sitting down chunkin’ rocks on a sign” or something like that. It’s such a great line,…
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