Tag: Identity
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To Stop Identity Formation
I heard someone speak of how sometimes we can be so involved with things that we don’t have time to work on identity formation. It is as if it can stop because we’re too busy. I know that we hardly ever think about our identity formation at every moment of…
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Compliments as Identity Affirmation
Have you ever thought about what a compliment is? Compliments are typically nice things that people say to us that we don’t know how to take. It’s something that we just aren’t good at. I think we’re not good at it because we haven’t thought about what it really is.…
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What You’re Looking For
I know U2 wrote a song about it, but even after the song – they haven’t told you how to find it. If you think that this blog post is going to tell you how to find it – well – let’s talk about it. I’d love to help you.…
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Phone Numbers
Phone numbers used to be an identity marker. Growing up, I knew everyone’s phone number. I had it all memorized. I knew all of our numbers. I knew all of my aunt’s and uncle’s numbers. I knew phone numbers of my friends. If I called you I had your number…
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Paideia
noun [mass noun] (in ancient Greece) a system of broad cultural education. formal the culture of a society. paideia (Greek: “education,” or “learning”), system of education and training in classical Greek and Hellenistic (Greco-Roman) cultures that included such subjects as: gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy. In the early Christian era the Greek paideia, called humanitas in Latin, served as a model for Christian institutions of higher learning, such as the Christian school of Alexandria in Egypt, which offered theology as the culminating science of their curricula. The term was combined with enkyklios (“complete system, ” or “circle”) to identify a large compendium of general education, hence “encyclopaedia.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/paideia) I so want this. Well, I want this except for the gymnastics part. I’m hoping…
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Identity and Courage
It takes courage to really, really face and develop your identity. It takes courage to design an identity. It takes courage really do the work and figure out who you truly are. The thing is identity is also something that you can hide behind. A performance of identity is something…
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Expert Intuition
I did a quick Google search for whether we can trust our intuition or not, and it was quite interesting to see the topics that came up in light of the question. Your intuitions are there for a reason. You have them, and they represent your sense of identity and…
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Your Critic Identity
Do you have one? Come on! I know you do. There are a few instances when we put on this identity, and we become the critic. Have you ever been in a room full of girls watching a beauty pageant? Have you seen a bunch of girls watch the Bachelor…
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Search History Identity Picture
And you can know it too. Google knows your search history. Google has my search history since May 2006. I have almost 22,000 searches in the past 5 years. You know how it is. If I have a question about something, I Google it. I Google things for research and…
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Your Dumb Teacher
…….might have given you a label that some lazy teacher gives them. It happens all the time – a lazy teacher who doesn’t know how to care for a child will label him and get him out of her class – because teaching for her is a job and not…
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The Oscars and Identity
One of the actors that was being interviewed said that when she watches the movies, she watches the movies to try and find herself. It was interesting how actors talk about the work that goes into the movies. And honestly like De Niro says, we have no clue what goes…
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