A short spoken excerpt (Josh Trent/Mindset Mentor) arguing that identity, actions, and results form a feedback loop: actions lead to results which then feed back into one’s identity. The speaker emphasizes that personality (from Greek "persona") is changeable, and cites an Alan Watts quote: "you're under no obligation to be who you were five minutes ago," to support the idea that identity can be consciously revised.
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Either an action is going to get you towards where you want to go. Are you going to get your action further away from where you want to go? And that's going to feed back into your identity. You're going to say, see, well, you know, I tried working out and dieting for two weeks, but I only lost two pounds. And so I'm just going to be this way forever. You don't get the results that you want feeds into your identity. Well, of course you didn't get the results because you're just fat. You're always going to be that way. It's in your genes. And so I think it's just important for people to take a step back and be like, who do I think I am? And is this who I want to be? The reason why I say identity goes into actions, actions go and results and results go back into your identity is if you have to question who you think that you are. Personality comes from the root word, Greek word, Persona, which is a mask that they would wear on stage. Back in the Greek days, it was like it was just their Persona and they could take that mask off. And so personality has never been meant to be something. When you actually look at the root of the word, of something that is, like, set in stone, it's something you can change at any moment. The quote that I say in Alan Watts is that you're under no obligation to be who you were five minutes ago.