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Identity Formation Systems
How a self is constructed, stabilised, and read by others.
Identity is not a feeling — it is a structure. This domain covers the mechanisms by which a person becomes legible to themselves and to other people: the stance they hold, the persona they perform, the posture they default to, and the discipline of updating the self-model without losing continuity.
Concepts in this domain
- Identity StabilityThe capacity to remain the same person under pressure, praise, and contradiction.
- Self-Model UpdatingThe deliberate revision of how you describe yourself when new evidence arrives.
- Position vs PersonaPosition is the category and stance you operate from; persona is the surface presentation of that stance.
- Posture as SignalThe default body, voice, and pace you carry into a room — read in the first three seconds, before any words.
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