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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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