Doctor Mike

You know, if you're afraid of death, it's interesting because everybody has a death fear.

It's just usually not physical death.

It's whatever attacks their sense of self.

their sense of who they are, the integrity of who they are as a person.

Most strivers that you and I deal with, or maybe you and me, it's failure because you're somebody who doesn't fail.

You're a winner.

And so I have my students actually expose themselves to

I take them through a Mara Sati Theravada Buddhist death meditation.

Well, that's the same idea.

That's exposure therapy.

But I ask my students to imagine their own catastrophic career failure and lean into it and

feel it and write it down in a very, very deep way.

And this is the same basic idea.

This is how you can manage yourself, manage your emotions and understand yourself, which is so critical.

By the way, it's an incredible adventure.

It's super fun and interesting.

Yeah.

I mean, identity...

there's a couple of different ways to define it.

Of course, your identity is how you understand yourself, but people use it in terms of a demographic characteristic a lot.