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The Identity Source Map · Identity = what I doThe Work-Anchored
Your sense of self is closely tied to what you produce. If asked "who are you?", you reach for your work.
The dimensional signature
Work
92
Family
50
Beliefs
50
Tribe
50
Aesthetic
45
Recognition
70
What this type means
The Work-Anchored derives identity primarily from what they do. Common in cultures with strong career-meaning narratives (US, Japan, urban professional contexts). The fragility test: what would happen if you lost the work? Identity-Source Map data suggests 30–40% of urban professionals would experience significant identity disruption. The pattern is functional but brittle to job loss, retirement, and disability.
In relationships
You're focused, productive, recognized for output. The cost: identity that lives in work is exposed to industry shocks, retirement, illness, and burnout.
Watch for
Career endings — voluntary or not — are existential for work-anchored identities. Notice if you can articulate who you are independent of what you do.
The growth edge
Build at least one non-work identity source you maintain deliberately. Family, craft, community — something that holds if work disappears tomorrow.
Are you The Work-Anchored?
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