The same biography can support several incompatible claims about who you essentially are.

The same set of facts supports contradictory conclusions about who you essentially are. Cautious or thoughtful, ambitious or restless, loyal or stuck, all drawn from the same events with a different arrangement. Biography does not determine interpretation, and whoever is telling it chooses the through-line.

Try telling your own history twice with opposite framings and notice that both are defensible. It loosens the grip of the version you usually tell, particularly if that version is unkind. There is no fact of the matter waiting underneath to settle it.