You are not your résumé. You are not your LinkedIn headline. You are not your inbox, your to-do list, or your overflowing calendar. You are not what you do.

But chances are, the world taught you otherwise.

From childhood, we’re praised for performance. Gold stars. Straight A’s. MVP trophies. Somewhere along the line, “What do you do?” became shorthand for “Who are you?” And we believed it.

I know I did.

There comes a moment — often quietly, often inconveniently — when the question surfaces:

"Is this it?"

You’ve hit the milestones. Built the résumé. Achieved the success you once dreamed of. But instead of fulfillment, there’s a faint, persistent hollowness.

If you’ve felt this, you’re not broken.
You’re just misaligned.

After interviewing over 30,000 professionals, I've seen the hidden pattern again and again:

The higher people climb, the more they're celebrated for what they do — and the easier it is to lose touch with who they are.