A nickname from seventh grade is not a job description.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Labels handed out at twelve were based on roughly three data points and a haircut. They stick because everyone kept using them, not because anybody went back and checked. Meanwhile the person being described has changed several times over, usually without the label being updated once.

Notice whether you are still living inside one of them. Being the quiet one, the messy one, the one who is bad with people. Test it this week by doing the exact thing the label says you do not do, and see how little resistance there actually is.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which old nickname still shapes how you introduce yourself?

MORE IN MINDSET & IDENTITY

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.