Grab a snack, this is a long one. In this episode, we encourage you to consider your identity as a teacher and answer the question, "If I'm not a teacher, who am I?"

Here's your homework:

Your assignment is to engage in some introspection! Take some questionnaires, or answer some self reflection questions to answer the question: if you’re not a teacher, who are you?

Resources:

• Truity has a lot of free tests for these and other frameworks:
• Enneagram
• MBTI
• OCEAN / Big Five
• StrengthsFinder
• Fascinate
• Books we mentioned:
  • Do What You Are (matching career identity to personality)
  • Managed Heart (emotional labor in the workplace)

These self reflection questions from Work On Purpose are great for reflection:

• If an alien dropped in from outer space, what would you be most compelled to show them or explain to them about our world, either because you are so drawn to it or repulsed by it?
• What is the primary topic of articles you read?  Movies you watch? Podcasts you listen to? TV shows you watch?
• What could you sell with passion?
• What do you know inside and out? What experience or knowledge do you have that most others probably do not?
  

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