You Can't Hide, You Can't Run Unwind Your Mind | Weekly Wisdom With Dan Isaacman

The Worst Person To Run From Is Yourself🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️
Identity is a complex psychological and social construct.
For millennia, it has defined our status and standing within societies.
Your position and power were primarily formed by your title and your relative standing within your community.
But there is another side to our identity that is not so formal.
Part of who we are, and who we become, is our perception of ourselves.
We create a character within our environment based on our actions and reactions.
Our observations let us form opinions about our behaviours, that shape our inner identity.
How can we develop a belief in ourselves and trust our ability to deliver and operate, based on prior experience?
Counter Surveillance 🔍
Human nature propels us to find patterns as a tool to communicate effectively.
We characterise people based on appearance, behaviour, and actions.
This allows us to quickly build an identity profile to speculate on other people's possible intentions and beliefs.
We judge people whether we want to admit it or not. It is a helpful shortcut to avoid having to cognitively process every single detail of interactions and relationships.
If only we had time to judge a book by its contents.
We use our previous experiences (pretext) and current environment (context) to understand the subtleties of life.
When engaging in conversation our pretext will shape our perception and understanding. The context will allow us to share large amounts of information with minimal effort based on a shared experience.
Computer and voice recognition have difficulty interpreting the subtleties of interaction because of the amount of information contained in the pretext and context that we humans effortlessly interpret.
When interacting with us, others often judge us too based on their past experiences. Even stranger, sometimes the opinions of those people shape our identity over time from external validation.
For example, if a doctor tells you something about yourself, you will usually believe them as an authority figure, and you might even take their comments and use them to form part of your own identity.
Think about it, most of us want to hear the doctor tell us what is wrong with us. It’s not good when they say they don’t know. We want something conclusive. When they do diagnose us, then we can justify our initial concern and take on this diagnosis as a part of our identity.
There is an inherent danger when crafting your identity and letting others shape who you become because it is easy to be misled by your own mind.
On to me, I’m on to You, It’s No Mystery 🧐
What is fascinating is that we conduct a similar process of judgement of ourselves.
We observe our behaviours and actions in the same way that we do with complete strangers.
Then we use our interpretations of how we conduct ourselves in the world to solidify our identity to reinforce our beliefs.
Your perceived identity is something that can work for you or against you, depending on if it has an encouraging healthy effect or a negative spiral.
Each experience we have, adds to, or subtracts from our confidence, which can affect the way we behave in the future and interpret our past.
As a result, it is impossible to "get away" with anything.
We are solely responsible for the inner identity we cultivate.
You cannot hide from yourself.
You will be judged by your personal moral code with every action and decision, even when you don’t have full control of your mind.
The spectrum of self-judgement ranges from pity to hubris and often changes.
The Only Person I Stand in the Shadow of is Evidence
Everything you do will affect you.
You might think this is crazy because how could you judge yourself if you anticipate your own behaviours?
The fact is we don’t always have absolute sovereignty over what we think, or do.
I challenge you to think back to a morning when you woke up with grand ambitions. You had a party to go to, and you decided tha