You Are Not Your Job Title : 5 Simple Tips To Manage Identity Crisis

After your name, what comes next?

For most of us, an answer comes back almost immediately. A title. A company name. An industry. Sometimes a function. Senior this. Head of that. Founder of something. It becomes a repeated line without any second thought. That is what you do. Not who you are.

Somewhere between the first time we said it and the hundredth, the role becomes our identity. You start living inside it. Spending years specialising in it. Sharpening it. Building a reputation around it. We take pride in the expertise it represented, the version of ourselves it reflected back.