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The question of identity

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“How does wisdom equip and empower us to live life such that we rise above the meaninglessness and mediocrity around us and the different challenges we face?”

That is the opening question of chapter 8 of the Dancing With Wisdom book.

To answer that question we begin by raising the question of identity or being – who am I called to be? It is the most fundamental question of my personal existence. We are, after all, human beings and not human doings!

Yet how often so much of our identity seems to come from what we do? Its the basic question often to a stranger we might meet at an event, asking them “What do you do?”

The problem is by basing my identity on my performance I can quickly fall between the extremes of arrogance at how well I am doing or despair when I don’t measure up to my own or other people’s standards. This is something we don’t necessarily give much conscious thought to but in deep and even mysterious ways it can drive our behaviours, actions and motivations.

In the 16th century the theologian John Calvin wrote, “True wisdom consists principally of two parts: the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves.”

On this 29 minute podcast do join my co-host Elliott Frisby and I as we discuss:

  • How so many of us struggle with the question of identity
  • The problems of basing my identity on my performance.
  • The Jewish carpenter’s contrasting observations of a widow’s and rich young man’s actions.
  • How wisdom with my identity is ultimately not about who I am, but whose I am.

The link to the podcast is below.

You can also watch the conversation on video here.

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“How does wisdom equip and empower us to live life such that we rise above the meaninglessness and mediocrity around us and the different challenges we face?”

That is the opening question of chapter 8 of the Dancing With Wisdom book.

To answer that question we begin by raising the question of identity or being – who am I called to be? It is the most fundamental question of my personal existence. We are, after all, human beings and not human doings!

Yet how often so much of our identity seems to come from what we do? Its the basic question often to a stranger we might meet at an event, asking them “What do you do?”

The problem is by basing my identity on my performance I can quickly fall between the extremes of arrogance at how well I am doing or despair when I don’t measure up to my own or other people’s standards. This is something we don’t necessarily give much conscious thought to but in deep and even mysterious ways it can drive our behaviours, actions and motivations.

In the 16th century the theologian John Calvin wrote, “True wisdom consists principally of two parts: the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves.”

On this 29 minute podcast do join my co-host Elliott Frisby and I as we discuss:

  • How so many of us struggle with the question of identity
  • The problems of basing my identity on my performance.
  • The Jewish carpenter’s contrasting observations of a widow’s and rich young man’s actions.
  • How wisdom with my identity is ultimately not about who I am, but whose I am.

The link to the podcast is below.

You can also watch the conversation on video here.

  continue reading

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