Reputation and How Other People Are Rewiring Your Identity

And How to Leverage That For Personal Branding Around Portfolio Careers

Here's something that might make you uncomfortable: you are not entirely in control of who you are. Your identity—the core of what makes you "you"—is being constantly shaped by other people's brains, whether you realize it or not.

I can assure you this is not another essay about caring too much about what others think, so hear me out. I’m not referring to people-pleasing or losing yourself to external validation.

I was watching Our Universe on Netflix and the way everything is connected is so fascinating. I wrote one of my very first essays for this publication on the fact that every single encounter and detail that you perceive affects who you become. So this is geared towards understanding what I find to be one of the most fascinating topics in neuroscience and how it reveals something amazing about the nature of human identity.

Mirror neurons.

In Social Connection

In the 1990s, researchers studying macaque monkeys made an accidental discovery that would revolutionize our understanding…