But in fact I had lots of habits that belonged to that world. Letting go is a fairly complex process in anybody's significant career shift. When you ask, 'What helps a person,' I don't want to minimize how important it is to get a new image in your mind, think of yourself as a brand, all of those things. But the other thing I find that people need to do is have some way of letting go of the old habits and the old attitudes and the old values. The first thing that people need to do is to decide what in their life and work is over and what isn't.
People err in both directions.
They err in the direction of saying, 'Everything is over. Of course that isn't true. There are a lot of things you carry with you from the old into the new. But then there are people who err in the other direction of saying, 'Well, this isn't anything psychological, I've just got a new role. There needs to be some sorting.