Contextualize Yourself to Yourself is Brian Swichkow's phrase for the inward function of 📝MythOS: helping a person build a coherent understanding of their own identity and thinking, not only explain themselves to others.
Brian describes MythOS as doing two things at once: contextualizing a person to others and contextualizing that person to themselves. The outward half, capturing a multi-dimensional identity once so it does not have to be rebuilt for every audience, is the subject of 📝Contextual Identity Infrastructure. The inward half concerns self-coherence: alignment, authenticity and integration rather than performance for an audience.
The pressure it answers is social. Multi-dimensional people often feel pushed to reduce themselves into recognizable categories, because others grow uncomfortable when a person cannot be neatly categorized. Contextualizing oneself more completely lets a person hold their nuance in view and feel safer being multi-dimensional, instead of trimming themselves to fit.
The idea stands in contrast to 📝personal branding tools, which assume the user already knows who they are and only needs to broadcast it. In this framing, self-knowledge is not a finished input but something written, refined and recontextualized over time, which links it to the view of MythOS as an 📝Authorship Platform where people author and update their own story as they evolve.
"MythOS gives you the ability to contextualize yourself to others, but also to contextualize yourself to yourself."