Who you are is not fixed — and neither is who you’re becoming. Tomer Rozenberg’s essays on identity explore the gap between the person you’ve been and the person you’re choosing to become: clinging to old stories, changing your mind, starting over, and the quiet courage of real transformation.
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The Stranger You Keep Handing Things To
Read more: The Stranger You Keep Handing Things ToYou made a promise today to someone who doesn’t exist yet. Future You. The one who will apparently have more time than you have right now. More energy.…
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Learning to Receive
Read more: Learning to ReceiveSomeone just told you something specific and good about you. Not a vague pleasantry. A clear statement. They saw something you did, or noticed something about who you…
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When You Want Someone to Feel It Too
Read more: When You Want Someone to Feel It TooYou hand someone your headphones. Or you slide your phone across the table with a paragraph highlighted. Or you say “you have to watch this” and turn your…
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What You’re Actually Chasing
Read more: What You’re Actually ChasingSpend thirty seconds on this. Think about last week. Not the week you planned. The one that actually happened. Where did your attention go when it was unscheduled?…
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What You Want and Won’t Let Yourself Have
Read more: What You Want and Won’t Let Yourself HaveThere’s a thing — you know the one. A book you’ve almost ordered half a dozen times. A course you’ve looked at and closed the tab on. A…
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Why We’re Afraid to Change Our Minds
Read more: Why We’re Afraid to Change Our MindsI used to have a strong opinion about something. I shared it publicly, more than once, with the kind of confidence that comes from genuinely believing you’ve thought…
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Choosing to Be Misunderstood
Read more: Choosing to Be MisunderstoodI made a decision last year that everyone in my life thought was wrong. Not dramatically wrong—nobody staged an intervention. But wrong enough that people kept asking me…
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Clinging to an Identity That No Longer Fits
Read more: Clinging to an Identity That No Longer FitsSomeone at work called me “the ambitious one” last week. Said it as a compliment, as a way of describing me to someone new. And instead of feeling…
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The Version of You That You Keep Trying to Be
Read more: The Version of You That You Keep Trying to BeEvery Sunday night, I do the same thing. I sit down with my planner and map out the perfect week. This will be the week I finally become…
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The Season of Life You’re In vs. The One You Think You Should Be In
Read more: The Season of Life You’re In vs. The One You Think You Should Be InI spent most of last year feeling like I wasn’t doing enough. Everyone around me seemed to be launching new projects, starting businesses, building impressive things. Meanwhile, I…
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