So I really enjoyed Jim's talk tonight - enlightening, inspiring, challenging and reaffirming. Thank you.
One question I struggle with when thinking about learning and idenity development is how to identify and measure growth. Learning seems a bit easier to grasp (maybe because we have more experience with trying to measure and identify growth with respect to learning) than the long-term and more wholistic notion of identity development. Jim talks about identity work as becoming a certain kind of person (as seen in what he calls a "combination:" the certain way a person talks, certain clothes a person wears, etc.), but this notion seems hard to define or describe in a "whole"-way. Ideas? Thoughts?
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