We can imagine ourselves as a series of concentric circles. On the outside lie all the more obvious things about us: what we do for a living, our age, education, tastes in food and broad social background. We can usually find plenty of people who recognize us at this level. But deeper in are the circles that contain our more intimate selves, involv
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People co-create their identities with brands just as they do with religions, communities, and other other systems of meaning.
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Each of us is a dynamic composite of everyone we’ve known, every place we’ve been, in expanding circles of family, community, species, and planet.