Identity Foreclosure

Maya: I was first and foremost a violinist before I was even Maya. She says there's a concept in cognitive science called identity foreclosure. And it refers to the fact that we can prematurely lock ourselves into a specific identity without having been exploratory about all the other identities, she says. "I did not expect to mourn the loss of myself."

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