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Working Identity
by Herminia Ibarra
Summary
Herminia Ibarra’s Working Identity is one of the strongest books on career change because it does not pretend reinvention begins with perfect clarity. It argues that people discover new working selves through experiments, side projects, conversations, temporary identities and real-world testing. That makes it especially useful for readers starting over in midlife or trying to change careers without waiting for total certainty.
“We learn who we are—in practice, not in theory—by testing reality, not by looking inside.”
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It belongs in the starting-over and reinvention clusters because it treats identity change as something practised before it is fully understood.
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