Dangers Of Identifying Yourself With Your Job
- It limits you to a single identity.
- It gives an incomplete and shallow picture of you to others.
- It doesn’t leave room for connections and serendipity.
- It leads to burnout as we keep running the same treadmill of work and start to think we are only something because of it.
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