[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Self-understanding]] - People: [[Arthur Brooks]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5lsYI0Q8zw --- ## Summary - [[You are not your work]]. - [[You are defined by what you value and how your actions express those values]]. - [[People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.]] - [[Always be yourself]] - [[Please think about your legacy because you are writing it every day]]. ## Notes ### Identity - Your perception of your identity is what you say in response to "who are you?". - [[You are not your work]]. - [[You are not your art]]. - [[You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offence when they are challenged|You are not your idea]]. - [[You are not your attainment]]. - [[You are defined by what you value and how your actions express those values]]. - You are defined by how others remember you — or if they do at all. - [[You are defined by the difference you've made in the lives of others]] - [[People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.]] - [[Please think about your legacy because you are writing it every day]]. ### Fear of (identity) death > "A fear of an attack on your identity... That's actually a death fear". - A lot of people who are really good at what they do are desperately afraid of failing at work. - Consider, acknowledge, and accept the stages of life yet to come. Recognize (and perhaps even celebrate) that all of those things are just part of life itself. - [[To learn to die is to be liberated from it]]. - [[Expose yourself to the truth of your own mortality so that you can transcend it to be fully alive right now]]. - [[Feel the fear and do it anyway!]] - [[When you feel you’re losing your edge, help others sharpen theirs.]] - Move on in your mind. Move on in your heart. Move on in your life. - Discover and embrace peace with the reality of things; with yourself. > [[You have to engineer new good times under different circumstances]] ## See also - [[Always be yourself]]