Personal Identity (MOC)
Notes
What does it mean to have a personal identity? what is it made of? is it constant across time?
personal identity is not personal at all
We are hardly just a single person, not in the current moment, and especially not across time.
we are a collection of beings - A person is a community that is shaped by and shapes others - Interpersonal Identity, and it is not fixed in time Intertemporal Identity
personal identity and change
Not only that our identity shapes our thinking - change starts from the inside out but it also works the other way around - Growth Mindset, our thinking has the ability to allow us to grow and develop our identity What we do is not who we are, and to guide us towards the right things Love what is good, but also to hold us back Fixed Mindset and become a one-dimensional being Personal change is not linear, at least not changes in our core identity. Those changes occur in single moments of Identity Discovery, where our sense of self is challenged and we need to create a new one.
how to treat yourself
you have the ability to choose how to treat yourself. you can either decide to seek control over yourselves - will to power or seek harmony between your different selves harmonious self, to combine emotion and reason Emotional Aikido, and to be kind Self-compassion.