... they can be characterized. The procedure involves asking-respondents to list at least 15 things that they are typically trying to do in their everyday lives, and then having them rate these strivings on various dimensions such as importance, probability of success, and effort expended on the striving. In addition, respondents indicate, for each pair of strivings, whether the strivings are ... they are, how they have become that way, and where they might end up in the future. As McAdams says, "Identity is the story that binds things together in the Me, to the extent that things can be so...

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