What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Psychologists call identity for closure when we settle prematurely on a sense of self without enough due diligence and close our minds to alternative selves. In career choices, identity for closure often begins when adults ask kids, what do you want to be when you grow up? Pondering that question can foster a fixed mindset about work and self. Kids might be better off learning about careers as actions to take rather than as identities to claim.