Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Reimpact Podcast.

I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,887.

Today I want to read to you an excerpt from a book that I recently read.

It's called The Master of Change by my friend Brad Stolberg.

Brad is a, he's awesome.

I love how he articulates principles of high performance and he says this, quote, one of

the most important parts of developing an identity that can thrive, persist and endure

change is to diversify your sense of self.

You can think of identity like a house.

You want the house to have multiple rooms.

Perhaps there is a parent room, an athlete room, an employee room, an entrepreneur or executive

room, a community member room, and so on.

It's okay to spend a lot of time in just one room, but you've got to ensure you keep

the others in good enough shape.

This way, when you experience a massive change or disorder event in one area of your life,

in one room of your identity, you can step into other areas again, your footing and stability.

Like a diversified portfolio in investing, diversifying your sense of self makes you more

rugged and flexible in the face of change.

Now for those of you listening to that and thinking, oh, close quote, by the way, for

those of you who have heard that and you're like, what does that even mean?

Basically, it means to detach your identity from one singular thing and know that you

are more than what you do.

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