Are we nouns, or are we verbs?

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In this episode, I'm diving into a conversation with my friend, Drew Schrader, to explore the tension between identifying with the roles we inhabit versus identifying with the actions and things we do.
To help us get into that conversation, we'll take a look at a Stephen Fry quote referencing an Oscar Wilde quote (a two-fer!). The quote from Stephen Fry is: “Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
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