# reinventing yourself (relocation)

*Ordinarily means:* deliberately changing your career, image or way of life to become a different kind of person

A thing using its own reach to move the walls of its own window, and moving its self-model with them, so the self persists across the move.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [agency](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agency.capacity), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [use](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self.personal), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue), [across](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-across.spatial)

**Through:** Agency is turned on the walls that define the self rather than on a task inside them; because the self-model is moved on purpose along with the walls, the model never falls out of its window, and continuity survives a relocation that drift alone would have read as an ending.

**Novel properties:**
- a self that is both the mover and the moved
- continuity kept by moving the model, not by holding it still
- a new window entered without crossing out of the self

## Examples
- David Bowie repeatedly remade his public persona, from Ziggy Stardust in 1972 to the Thin White Duke in 1976, while continuing to record as the same artist. *(music)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reinventing-yourself.relocation*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reinventing-yourself.relocation.json*  
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