The Tendency to Believe That You Are What Others Think of You

It's a temptation for us to believe that we are what other people think of us. If you never make it to partner in the firm, if you're never tenured as a professor and your work doesn't get, is not world-renowned, then what? Are you a failure? The last temptation is that we would believe that I am what I have. And that is just a treadmill that I don't want any of us to be on."