All of the ‘whats’ you invest in can help you understand who you are. The pronouns you choose, the titles you accept, anything and everything you take or have to take as a measure of yourself can show you what you might otherwise never see. You. All you need is a way of noticing who becomes clear, in the way you feel, in the way you think, in your behaviour, when you are circumscribed like this.
Rules provoke a reaction
Rules provoke a reaction from who you really are. Find another person who can reflect back to you who they see in you without spoiling that reflection with too much of themself. It isn’t so much a case of who you are is what you do, as who you are is how you do things.