Ornella Davis
Feb 5, 2024

As ever, your article is filled with hope and actionable advice, Jacquline.

I know several people (and was myself) incapable of conceiving their value apart from their doing. That's why this question of "what do you want to be" is so stressful to some, because they believe they have to do in order to be. And if they don't do the right thing they won't be who they are supposed to be. Thanks for untangling the doing and the being!

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Ornella Davis
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I know what you mean Ornella. Some of it starts when we ask children what they want to be instead of asking them what they want to do. As a result 'doing' and 'being' becomes the same in our mind. And as you rightly said, we start thinking that we…