????ist the ten words or phrases that best describe the most important aspects of your identity. These features could concern your social roles, physical characteristics, intellectual qualities, social style, beliefs, and particular skills.

Then make a second list, putting what you regard as the most important feature at the top, and ranking all ten items with the least important at the bottom.

Starting at the bottom of your list, imagine that these items are removed from your personality one by one. Visualize how you would be different without each personality feature. What difference does its absence make to you?

This is the start of the process of establishing your self-concept. How much more or less valid is this approach than one based on forced choice questionnaires – and why?