The Real Secret of Habits

Every action you take as a vote for the type of person you wish to become. The danger is that you let a single belief, a single aspect of your identiy, a overpower everything else. If you cling too tightly to one identity, it becomes hard to grow beyond it. You can view yourself as like a collection of identities - and any time one particular belief takes over too much of that, if you lose that aspect, it feels like you lose yourself.