Are you what you do, or do you do something because of what you are?

These are questions what I keep about and returning to.

In part identify with what we do.

In part we do, because we have already identified with that activity.

The answer is that it is both. However, where does it begin? We’ll most simply it begins by doing, from which we gather experiences and start building our Identity, the who we are around that experience and understanding.

I’ve experienced identity as powerful and Fragile. Then I’ve become consciously making more decisions that would make identity more antifragile.

Broader associations with identity tend to create stronger and healthier Identities than the narrower associations which make identities fragile. It’s no coincidence that the universities have really broad topics, and titles, where are the more concrete you go, for example in vocational institutions the topics and titles get very specific.

From identity point of view, fluid and flexible is antifragile, it allows possibilities. Specific is rigid and fragile.

Why we are what we are? Our identities are social constructs, that has been built since our birth. Not only by ourselves, but all the people we have met and interacted in our lives. Consciously we can choose different activities, even challenge our identities.

Consider for a moment: why are you what you are?

And if you are what you are, what else you can do to strengthen that?

What would your ideal be and do?