If you think of yourself as needing to be "brave" then you identify as a coward constantly needing to put on airs. If you admit you are fearful, you identify as someone brave facing a challenge.
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There's a similar effect for smokers "trying to quit". "trying" to quit implies identification as a smoker. Similar to Hume's Guillotine, no amount of "trying" is going to cross the chasm into an identity shift.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem …
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It's not about "doing" the opposite but "being" the opposite. This "being" identity shift comes with it a drastic loss in competency. E.g. identifying as a non-smoker who smokes all the time would be laughed at as the worst non-smoker.
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This ability to maintain a "beginner's mind" without discomfort is necessary to shift into new identities though. Otherwise there's a risk of "expert beginnerism"https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/ …
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