Identity Crisis: Why Defining Yourself by Your Career Is a Problem
Harvard Business Review
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Identity Crisis explores how tying your self-worth to career success leads to fear and burnout, and shows how accepting decline, confronting mortality, and redefining identity beyond work can bring peace and open new paths in life.
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Everybody needs to manage their own life like a project and understand that their skills and interests are going to change, to do things on purpose, and to recognize that the good times are not going to last forever.
—Harvard Business Review
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