When we learn new ideas, we see the world differently—we have a different way of thinking and a different way of interpreting every event in our lives. As Wenger says, learning is a process of identity formation. Psychologists used to see identity as a static concept, maintaining that we all have “an” identity that we develop as children and keep throughout our lives. But more recent work has given identity a more fluid meaning, suggesting that we can all have different identities in different parts of our lives.
