"Whoever you are, you have constructed yourself. You have sought to achieve goals, accepted fate's blows, won successes, and suffered failures. All of this experience has gradually built the person you are today.
When you evolve in alignment with your identity, you flourish; conversely, you consume yourself. Lack of motivation, irrational acts, departures...
Individual, family, organization, nation? The mechanism is the same, as these are the four affective entities."