{"id":7409,"date":"2021-09-30T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7409","title":{"rendered":"IDENTITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I wrote that any good habit could be justified in this way: &#8220;I do this habit because I want to be the kind of person who . . .&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Clear, author of <i>Atomic Habits<\/i>, puts it this way: &#8220;Every action you take (in forming a new habit) is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I clear the kitchen counter, it is a vote cast for &#8220;a person who is tidy and organized&#8221;. When I choose broccoli over a candy bar, it is a vote cast for &#8220;a physically healthy individual&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Clear again: &#8220;the more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Clear, &#8220;the word <i>identity <\/i>was originally derived from the Latin words <i>essentitas<\/i>, which means <i>being<\/i>, and <i>identidem<\/i>, which means <i>repeatedly<\/i>. Your identity is literally your &#8216;repeated beingness.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am finding that this is perhaps the most powerful aspect of habits.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe the true power of good habits is not what we accomplish through them &#8211; keeping the bedroom tidy, toning muscles at the gym, returning emails promptly &#8211; but rather the way each habit shapes our self image.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote that any good habit could be justified in this way: &#8220;I do this habit because I want to be the kind of person who . . .&#8221;. James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, puts it this way: &#8220;Every action you take (in forming a new habit) is a vote for the type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}