Here are the rules: I've been at zero a few times, come back a few times, and done it over and over. I've started entire new careers. People who knew me then don't know me now. And so on.
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition. Sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes, just because I hated everyone in my old career, or they hated me.
There are other ways to reinvent yourself, so take what I say with a grain of salt. This is what worked for me.
I've seen it work for maybe a few hundred other people. Through interviews, through people writing me letters, through the course of the past twenty years. You can try it or not.
A) Reinvention never stops.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
B) You start from scratch.
Every label you claim you have from before is just vanity. You were a...
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