be self-aware and to analyze our own thoughts and actions. At bottom identity is the internal me censoring, filtering, valuing, synthesizing, and interpreting how I stand with regard to all the realities of my life. What gets in, what gets valued as good, what is given importance and attached to, what receives commitment, what gets rejected or denied—even if true—and what has such force it cannot be ignored? What do I really care about, like, and dislike, and why? Identity is the result of the thinking
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