Your Possessions Are Not Your Identity
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🗓️ 12 October 2022
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Summary
It’s very easy to associate our possessions and our positions with our identity. There’s even an expression to that effect: The clothes make the man. When we have a powerful job, we feel powerful. When the market is hot, we feel like we have a knack for investing. When we are number one in our space, in our industry, in sales, we’re very into checking and monitoring the rankings. When people are saying nice things about us, we revel in it, because of course it’s all true and deserved.
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| 0:27.2 | It's very easy to associate our possessions and our positions with our identity. |
| 0:32.8 | There's even an expression to that effect, the clothes make the man. |
| 0:38.3 | When we have a powerful job, we feel powerful. |
| 0:41.1 | The market is hot, we feel like we have a knack for investing. |
| 0:44.5 | When we are number one in our space and our industry and sales, we're very into checking |
| 0:49.2 | and monitoring the rankings. |
| 0:51.6 | When people are saying nice things about us, we revel in it because of course it's |
| 0:56.1 | all true and deserved. |
| 0:58.4 | If everything stays well, it's hard to see what the downside of this approach is, accepting |
| 1:03.6 | the ego that can often creep in. |
| 1:06.5 | It's only when the screw turns that we realize how dangerous this has been because when |
| 1:12.3 | you associate your identity with externals when things are good. |
| 1:16.9 | It's impossible not to associate your identity when all those externals are showing you |
| 1:22.2 | to be a loser or a fool or the object of other people's contempt. |
| 1:27.2 | The stokes would urge you to remember that things don't make the man, not now, not ever. |
| 1:34.4 | Epic Titus reminds us that just because someone has more money than you doesn't make them |
| 1:39.3 | superior, no only their bank balance is superior. |
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