If You Want To Change Your Story, Change Your Actions First
And if you want to change your actions, change your story first.
“If you want to change your story, change your actions first. When we choose to act a certain way, our mind can’t help but rework our narrative to make those actions become coherent. We become what we do.” ~ Seth Godin, via MoveMe Quotes
At what point does a writer become a writer? Or an artist become an artist? Or a musician become a musician? Does identity as a writer/artist/musician happen based on an arbitrary decision or as a result of accumulated action?
In other words, if I identify as a writer—does that make me one? Can an identity magically befall upon a person at their request? Or is identifying as a writer something that happens only after a certain amount has been written?
The interesting answer to this question is that, as far as I can tell, it’s a mixture of both.
You have to identify as being what you want to become and you also have to do the work to confirm that identity. Calling myself a musician without any experience in music wouldn’t be a declaration of identity—it would be a false claim. On the other hand, if I truly saw myself as a musician, then I’m much more likely to act in ways that would later confirm that…
