I'm not sure which category to post this question under, but here seems as good a place as any. I remember reading in one of Steves articles that we shouldn't see our ideas as being part of our identity. (I can't remember which article it was, sry.
) As I recall, his basic reasoning for this is because your ideas don't really define the real you, and the danger of believing that they do is what causes us to feel offended when others disagree with our point of view. So ideas are ego-based.
To my understanding, beliefs are also ideas right? And therefore ideas form the basis of everything we say and do, so where can we draw the line between ideas and self-identity? By not being accountable for one's ideas, isn't that just like denying responsibility for your own actions? Anybody have any thoughts on this that could help clear things up for me?