In this post, I'm sharing a snippet of Jon Acuff's latest blog post. I guess it's talking about something that I've definitely experienced before, but had never really thought about in this way, so it stood out and made some ideas fall into place for me. Enjoy...
“The problem is that we all start off with an identity. It’s who we are and who God made us to be. Then we have some small degree of success and we add that to our identity. That success becomes our identity. So now, when we try something new, we’re not just afraid to fail, we’re afraid to lose our identity. That’s what’s terrifying. That’s why people are afraid to take risks or try new things. It’s not just failure at stake, we think we’re going to lose our identity and that’s overwhelming.”
In other news, I'm composing blog posts in my mind all the time at the moment, but never getting to actually type them out. If only technology had advanced as far as being able to transfer my thoughts into typed words!
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