While some of us do it naturally, we can all learn to hold our identity in ways that make us more resilient. We can’t control the feedback life throws at us, but we can make some specific shifts in assumptions that can improve our ability to take it in, stay balanced, and learn from it. Two shifts are crucial. We need to: (1) Give up simple identity labels and cultivate complexity; and (2) Move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.
