Alfred Korzyb­ski in “Sci­ence and San­ity” (1933) reflects on the verb “to be” and the process of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. He used to train peo­ple to avoid say­ing “I am”, ask­ing them “Is this all you think you are?”.

Have you noticed when we are asked “who are you”, often, we say our name, and maybe men­tion our occupation/job title? Is this all we are? The verb TO BE can be lim­it­ing and reflects our beliefs about ourselves.

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