Dr. K

He's being a good leader.

Being a good leader by not taking the responsibility from me.

And so that was the moment I became a doctor.

But I knew everything before then.

If after I retire, will I still be a doctor?

It's a piece of my identity.

But I've always been me even before that.

So accolades are not bad.

Parts of our identity are not bad per se.

They're a necessary part of living in the world.

But we should step away from them as much as possible.

At the end of the day, in this moment, I'm not a doctor.

I'm just me.

And what I really try to help people do is move from negative identity to positive identity.

That's a step in the right direction.

But then we want to shed all of that and recognize that we're just humans.

And you are a wise, passionate man.

You weren't that before in a weird way, but that's okay, right?

Because you had to go through the negative versions of yourself to be the current version of yourself.

And if you try to hold on to being a wise, passionate man, you will be in trouble.