These reflections assume you've finished Identity..
The question this book opens — who are you, when what you did no longer tells you who you are? — and doesn't close, because it doesn't close in one book.
A few things worth sitting with
- If your work disappeared tomorrow, which parts of your answer to “who are you?” would go with it?
- What have you made that you'd keep even if no one ever saw it again?
- Where does the name for yourself come from, once the title is gone?
A role can feel like a safe place to keep an identity, right up until it stops being yours. Then the question changes shape: what was the role holding, and what was only standing near it?
Read on: Direction follows the question as it turns.
If you want to follow the inquiry beyond these reflections, there is a next door from here. No hurry. Start where you are.