I appreciated the honesty in this piece but something in the way the author places all blame on himself struck me as inappropriate (at least if I were putting m

I appreciated the honesty in this piece but something in the way the author places all blame on himself struck me as inappropriate (at least if I were putting myself in his shoes): "I thought about my best moments. I thought about my worst moments. I derived the behaviors and attributes that led to each. I wrote a list of personal values" I don't think it's right or even helpful to try to quantify and reduce a human being to a list of values and pluses or minuses. Saying that you "lost yourself" and need to find it back sounds like agreeing with the premise that you fit in this neat mold that the CEO and COO have defined for you and puts you in danger of "losing your shape" whenever those people decide so. It sounds like a very externally-oriented appraisal of one's self.