HOW TO BREAK THE BELIEFS THAT HOLD YOU BACK

In the beginning, repeating a habit is essential to build up evidence of

your desired identity. As you latch on to that new identity, however,

those same beliefs can hold you back from the next level of growth.

When working against you, your identity creates a kind of “pride” that

encourages you to deny your weak spots and prevents you from truly

growing. This is one of the greatest downsides of building habits.

The more sacred an idea is to us—that is, the more deeply it is tied

to our identity—the more strongly we will defend it against criticism.

You see this in every industry. The schoolteacher who ignores

innovative teaching methods and sticks with her tried-and-true lesson

plans. The veteran manager who is committed to doing things “his

way.” The surgeon who dismisses the ideas of her younger colleagues.

The band who produces a mind-blowing first album and then gets

stuck in a rut. The tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes

to grow beyond it.

One solution is to avoid making any single aspect of your identity an

overwhelming portion of who you are. In the words of investor Paul

Graham, “keep your identity small.” The more you let a single belief

define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges

you. If you tie everything up in being the point guard or the partner at

the firm or whatever else, then the loss of that facet of your life will

wreck you. If you’re a vegan and then develop a health condition that

forces you to change your diet, you’ll have an identity crisis on your

hands. When you cling too tightly to one identity, you become brittle.

Lose that one thing and you lose yourself.

For most of my young life, being an athlete was a major part of my

identity. After my baseball career ended, I struggled to find myself.

When you spend your whole life defining yourself in one way and that

disappears, who are you now?

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✅ repeat: تکرار کردن

✅ essential : لازم و ضروری

✅ build up : ساختن

✅ evidence : مدرک و دلیل

✅ desired : مطلوب

✅ identity : هویت

✅ latch onto:دو دستی چسبیدن به چیزی 

✅ beliefs : باورها

✅ growth : رشد

✅ pride : غرور

✅ encourage : تشویق کردن

✅ deny: انکار کردن

✅ prevent : جلوگیری کردن

✅ truly : واقعا

✅ downside : ضرر

✅ sacred : مقدس

✅ deeply : عمیقا

✅ strongly : به طور قوی

✅ criticism : نقد

✅ industry : صنعت

✅ schoolteacher : معلم مدرسه

✅ ignore : نادیده گرفتن

✅ innovative : خلاقانه

✅ veteran : کارکشته

✅ manager: مدیر

✅ committed : متعهد

✅ surgeon : جراح

✅ dismiss: رد کردن

✅ colleagues : همکاران

✅ mind-blowing : عالی

✅ solution : راه حل

✅ avoid : دوری کردن

✅ aspect : جنبه

✅ overwhelming : بزرگ

✅ portion : قسمت

✅ investor : سرمایه گذار

✅ capable : توانا

✅ adapting : سازگاری

✅ wreck : نابود کردن

✅ vegan: وگان

✅ develop: گسترش دادن

✅ health condition : مشکل سلامتی

✅ crisis : بحران

✅ cling too tightly : محکم به چیزی چسبیدن

✅ brittle : انعطاف ناپذیر

✅ athlete: ورزشکار

✅ major: مهم

✅ struggle : کشمکش

✅ disappear: ناپدید شدن

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