How Learning Can Change the Way You See Yourself at Work

You change your identity when you learn something new.

Learning something new shapes your worldview, but most fundamentally, it shapes your view of yourself.

Learning how to play tennis causes you to think of yourself as a tennis player.

Learning how to cook makes you the de facto family chef.

Learning to care for a new puppy makes you an Instagram dog account owner.

But here’s the problem in our world of learning at work:

In a sales team, for example, learning how to sell doesn’t fundamentally impact our identity because we don’t see ourselves as our work.

So it follows that to help people transform at work, we must help them transform their lives.

We must help them bring their full selves into a work context.

Here’s what we should be teaching people:

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