Why You Should Change Your Identity?
Book: “Atomic Habits”
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Book: “Atomic Habits”
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Your identity emerges out of your habits.
You are not born with preset beliefs.
Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.
More precisely, your habits are how you embody your identity.
When you make your bed each day, you embody the identity of an organized person.
When you write each day, you embody the identity of a creative person.
The more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.
Whatever your identity is right now, you only believe it because you have proof of it.
The more evidence you have for a belief, the more strongly you will believe it.
Of course, your habits are not the only actions that influence your identity, but by virtue of their frequency they are usually the most important ones.
Each experience in life modifies your self-image, but it’s unlikely you would consider yourself a soccer player because you kicked a ball once or an artist because you scribbled a picture.
As you repeat these actions, however, the evidence accumulates and your self-image begins to change.
The effect of one-off experiences tends to fade away while the effect of habits gets reinforced with time, which means your habits contribute most of the evidence that shapes your identity.
In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself.
Putting this all together, you can see that habits are the path to changing your identity.
The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
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