The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World

The Identity Code reveals and explains how your identity is the source of your uniqueness and potential to create value in the world. Exercise and express your identity and it will grow ever deeper and more powerful in its impact on your life and the lives of others. Larry Ackerman describes key aspects of how your identity can be explored and brought to life in concrete ways that lead not only to greater self-actualization, but your ability to "do right' by other people. Your identity, the author notes, "is the living lens through which you can confidently engage the world, make more informed decisions, and thereby fashion a life that you, and others, can trust." One of the central aspects of identity is the "gift" you have to give -- i.e., the purpose or passion that was born into you. Ackerman notes that many people may find it hard to accept that everyone has and can express such a purpose, but doing so, he argues, is the essence of what makes us human. The book contains uniquely helpful exercises that accompany clear explanations of the eight "essential questions," allowing you to make a more powerful and positive contribution within the context of your most important relationships -- from work to love.