You are not — mostly — your race, your gender, your family-of-origin, your DSM-approved behavioral health label. You are not primarily your DNA. You are not your ancestry.

Mostly, you are your CHOICES. You are the sum total of your accumulated choices, large and small, over the course of your life. Your choices are always subject to change. But first: You must own them.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason