Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Thursday morning.

So this morning I'd like you to take a moment to reflect on how you think about yourself

and how you think about others seeing you.

Essentially, talking about how do you define yourself.

I don't want you to define yourself, but rather to reflect on what is that idea you have

in your mind of who you are.

Of perhaps how other people see you and that might be a combination of many, many factors.

It might be the way that you think, the beliefs that you have, the opinions you hold.

It might be an expression of your passion, your emotions in life.

It could be an expression of your skills, your talents, the way you present things in the

world.

Or it could be a reflection of what you do in the world, perhaps a career or the people

you look after, whatever it might be.

That idea is not only sort of very small, quite sort of limiting, but it's also sort of

very fixed.

And there's the possibility that over time we can let go of some of those fixed ideas.

We can loosen it up a little bit and maybe even go beyond it altogether.

But I come back to that in a moment.

How often have you been in a social situation, maybe even a business situation where people

have asked you, so what do you do?

It's almost the first question.

After sort of high, my name is the first question, what do you do?

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