You Are More Than Your Work

• Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.
• Too many people who work hard and strive for success self-objectify as excellent work machines and tools of performance.
• Strivers seek professional success to deliver satisfaction and happiness. But self-objectification makes both impossible, setting us up for a life of joyless accomplishment and unreachable goals followed by the tragedy of inevitable decline.

To be happy, we need to throw off these chains we put on ourselves.