By Exploring Your Mind — 2019
Social identity is the degree to which we identify with a certain group. It is the measure of how important a group is to us.
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In the first part of The National’s series Battling Burnout, Canadian author and workplace expert Rahaf Harfoush tells Andrew Chang that pressures in the modern workplace are distorting our identities by often placing success at work at the expense of mental and physical well-being.
For Elodie, starting a new job was a positive experience where she felt that she could start regaining the confidence she lost following her cancer diagnosis. "When they did find out, they treated me the same and I hadn't had that experience before".
How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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