1, #98 - Behavior starts with identity
A secure identity overflows to a clear mission and builds a healthy community. That’s a life
Chris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe.
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
almost every highly successful intervention uses identity as a primary pressure.