“There’s this thing people say about celebrities, that they’re frozen at the age they got famous,” Taylor Swift expressed in the documentary Miss Americana. Swift was lamenting the extreme end of cementing. You get stuck and stop exploring, partially because the world around you ceases to permit you to grow. It’s not just celebrities or prodigies that experience this. When we get stuck in narrow mode for too long, we slowly shed the potential paths in our periphery. In the identity development literature, this early cementation is called identity foreclosure. We stop seeing other possible
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