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There's a question that runs underneath every promotion, every job title, every carefully built career. Almost nobody asks it. In this episode, Timmy Cheung explores what happens when work becomes the entirety of who you are, drawing on Tajfel's Social Identity Theory, Carmy Berzatto's identity crisis in The Bear, and a deceptively simple question from a Season 1 episode of Frasier that an entire psychiatrist couldn't answer.
Because your job title is not your identity. It's a role an organisation gave you, and could take back at any moment. So before you reach for it the next time someone asks what you do, ask yourself the only question that actually matters. Are you happy?
Voice Notes While the Data Loads. Season 2.
Feelings drive everything.
By Timmy CheungThere's a question that runs underneath every promotion, every job title, every carefully built career. Almost nobody asks it. In this episode, Timmy Cheung explores what happens when work becomes the entirety of who you are, drawing on Tajfel's Social Identity Theory, Carmy Berzatto's identity crisis in The Bear, and a deceptively simple question from a Season 1 episode of Frasier that an entire psychiatrist couldn't answer.
Because your job title is not your identity. It's a role an organisation gave you, and could take back at any moment. So before you reach for it the next time someone asks what you do, ask yourself the only question that actually matters. Are you happy?
Voice Notes While the Data Loads. Season 2.
Feelings drive everything.