For the millions whose sense of self has been constructed around professional competence and measurable achievement, AI is triggering something far more threatening than economic disruption. It's triggering the forced dismantling of identity itself. However, there is a hidden opportunity here to shed the 'conventional' identity and move into the 'post-conventional identity', a place where greater self-awareness and well-being have the potential to arise.

The Conventional Identity Under Siege

Most people in modern Western societies have built their identities at what developmental psychologists call the conventional stage of consciousness (Cook-Greuter, 2014). At this level, your sense of self comes primarily from achievement-related markers: your job title, measurable achievements, rol

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