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This is similar advice to one of the Atomic Habits chapters about identity. You might find it a chore to go the gym if you frame it to yourself that way. But if you call yourself an athlete, or just "i'm a fit person" and that becomes part of your identity, it's easier to do. Works for me so far.

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I thought about Atomic Habits when I read this too. The flip side that I think was also interesting to me was a few chapters later when the author talks about not letting any single identity become too overpowering.

> Avoid making any single aspect of your identity an overall proportion of who you are. Keep your identity small. The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.

(I think a piece of that is a PG quote iirc)

I read a similar method called shapeshifting which tries to one up this game. You need several titles and persons you know that are good in it then shapeshift into that identity on demand - eg on the night you gonna present an hour lecture for your peers give yourself the identity of a great presenter.

I never put it into practice I just find the idea interesting :)

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