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I don't think it's possible to completely detach your identity from your beliefs in the book I talk about how there's this famous essay by Paul Graham the tech investor and entrepreneur and essayist and it influenced a lot of people when it first came out 10 15 years ago it's called keep your identity small and he's basically pointing out this phenomenon that I've been talking about and says you know all else equal you want to let us few things into your identity as possible if you want to be able to think as clearly as possible and so I and a lot of people I know read that and we're like yeah that makes a lot of sense I'm gonna try to avoid labeling myself in any way you know so that I don't distort my thinking so I'm gonna avoid political labels I'm gonna avoid calling myself a vegan or an atheist and the problem is just that this is not logistically feasible like labels are just practically useful to be able to just characterize your beliefs and your choices and just emotionally it's probably not reasonable to get rid of all feelings of attachment to your beliefs about things like politics so instead what I try to do now and what I what I advocate for is just trying to hold your identity more lightly trying to maintain a little bit more emotional distance from your beliefs and so you can still call yourself you know a feminist or whatever you are but try to hold hold that more lightly so that involves things like reminding yourself that that label is contingent so yes I'm a feminist now that because that label just best describes my beliefs but if I were to you know come to the conclusion that feminism is actually wrong or harmful then I would not be a feminist anymore so essentially you're trying to make the label feel just like just a label and not like a flag that you're waving or a badge that you're wearing