Pete Wright

Okay, go ahead.

So I'm thinking about like what quitting, what I was researching mostly for the day was like what quitting actually does to your brain, right?

So we want to talk about how you change as a function of leaving a thing that you've been doing and have committed yourself in some part to it.

So the first issue is what your job means to

to your identity because you have an identity that is highly tied to the work that you do during the day, like it or not.

We can say, oh, my job hasn't changed me.

Your job changes you.

It changes who you are at a very fundamental level.

And in fact, psychologist James Marsha and Eric

Erickson have done a lot of work on this kind of thinking about how work changes our identity.

And this is back in the 60s, man.

We've been talking about this a long time.

This describes what happens when we commit to a role or identity, a career and a title and a

all without ever really asking whether or not that identity fits who you are.

So these guys said, when you quit, you're doing something called identity testing.

foreclosure.

Oh, I like it.

That's what I said.

Oh, foreclosure.

Oh, what a word that is.