Thanks for writing this Sequence! It is immensely helpful to have actionable advice like this for putting rationality to practice.

I am confused about the purpose of this technique though:

The goal of CoZE is to take beliefs about yourself and test them experimentally, both making your identity smaller and discovering new things about yourself. Remember to try things.

Making one‘s identity smaller and discovering new things seem somewhat contradictory. Wouldn‘t discovering new things make one‘s identify larger? Reading the name of the technique, I initially thought that it would be about getting rid of negative and self-limiting beliefs about yourself (and this also matches with the given examples), but the paragraph quoted above does not quite seem to match with this.

Am I missing something here?