Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Without Your Job Title, Who Are You? 🤔

14 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this short motivational monologue, Nick Hutchison challenges the common question "What do you do?" and argues that personal identity should not be defined by job titles. He points out that in the United States, many people tie their sense of self to the work they perform for others. To counter this mindset, he references his book Without Your Job Title, Who Are You? and shares a pivotal statement from it: "My breakdown became my breakthrough. Your purpose in life, your identity, comes from your pain when you break things down and you rebuild." He concludes by inviting viewers to comment on who they are, explicitly asking them to omit any mention of their job titles, thereby encouraging a focus on deeper personal identity.

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One question I'm tired of hearing is, what do you do? We are so much more interesting than that. I mean, it's strange that in the world today, especially the United States, so much of our identity is tied to the work that we perform for somebody else. Strange. And so in an effort to sort of reverse this thinking, I am reading this book right here, Without Your Job Title, Who Are You? And there's a statement that I'd like to read to everybody. My breakdown became my breakthrough. Your purpose in life, your identity, comes from your pain when you break things down and you rebuild. So here's a fun one for everybody. Tell me who you are in the comment section below, but don't include your job title.