Parental Controls
Whether you give yourself the option to choose who you are, instead of just defaulting to how you were raised.
Jay Shetty and the Identity That Became a Cage
Parental Controls ask whether you give yourself the option to choose who you are, instead of defaulting to how you were programmed. Jay Shetty's narrative identity concept maps directly onto this: the story you've been told about yourself — or the story you've been repeating — runs like a control that shapes every decision without you questioning it. 'I'm the ambitious one,' 'I'm the one who never gives up,' 'I'm the dependable one' — these are inherited or self-installed controls that restrict who you allow yourself to become. Turning this setting on means pausing and asking: did I actually choose this identity, or did I just inherit it and keep running it?