Who is doing the creating?

The Known Character

We all play characters at work. People often call this a work persona. In The Corporate Artist it is the Known Character: a familiar role you adopt there, and the beliefs attached to it about who you need to be to succeed, belong or feel safe. The character isn’t the problem. The beliefs attached to it are.

Morgan describes the beliefs this way. The Expert: “I always need the answer.” The Peacemaker: “If someone disagrees, are they upset with me?” The Always-Busy Hero: “If I’m not producing, I’m not valuable.”

The invitation is to notice the character and recover a choice: what is it protecting, and what else could you choose? When you see the character, you can choose instead of react.

Explore Chapter 6, “You Are Playing a Character,” in the book.

The reading experiment explores patterns in responses. It does not assign you a personality type.