Who Gets To Tell You Who You Are?

Is your identity threatened by my differing ideas?

This says all that needs to be said about success. You are who you decide to become, unless you give that away to someone else.

Seth Godin’s apropos and brilliant piece today, Identity and Ideas draws an important distinction and raises an important question. The distinction is that some people receive their identities from other’s ideas, while other’s identities don’t derive from a dictated ideological position. The latter are free to examine…