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Identity foreclosure can stop us from evolving. It is the opposite of an identity crisis. Instead of accepting uncertainty about who we want to become, we develop compensatory conviction and plunge into a career path. Very often students who are most certain about their career plans at twenty turn out to be the ones with deepest regrets by thirty.
Identity foreclosure is a Band-Aid.
It covers up an identity crisis. But fails to cure it.
Do not get trapped in an overconfidence cycle, taking pride in pursuing a career identity and surrounding yourself with people who validate your conviction. By the time you discover it was the wrong fit, you'd feel it's too late to think again..
The stakes seem too high to walk away. The sacrifices of salary, status, skill and time would appear to be too much.
To put it straight, it's better to lose the past two years of progress than to waste the next twenty years of your precious life.
Think Again
