1, #98 - Behavior starts with identity
identity is always a construct that derives from an interaction between the identity holder and the wider environment.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
There are three layers of behavior change: a change in your outcomes, a change in your processes, or a change in your identity.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
There are three layers of behavior change: a change in your outcomes, a change in your processes, or a change in your identity.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Try to think of identity as hierarchy. At the top are the roles, which don’t mean anything in and of themselves but are simply shorthand for a set of values that live underneath. These values are then associated with actual behaviors, because identity is really a sentence we tell ourselves and others: “I’m the kind of person who [value/behavior].”
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe. When it comes to building habits that last—when it comes to building a system of 1 percent improvements—the problem is not that one level is “better” or “worse” than another. All levels of change are useful in their own way. The problem is the dire
... See moreClear, James • Atomic Habits: The life-changing million copy bestseller
Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe.