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As a young kid, I had big dreams of becoming a concert violinist and really poured every ounce

of my being into this pursuit from the time that I was six years old.

So I feel like I defined myself exclusively first and foremost as a violinist.

I saw that as my past, present, and future, and I think it held me back, feeling that my identity

was so fixed.

I would have benefited a lot from having a more malleable sense of self.

What is my version of my through line?

I gave you strip away all the superficial features of a pursuit. What's left that really

ignites passion in me?

Tying my identity to the feature of the violin that I love, namely the ability to forge

emotional connections has been a much more durable, steady state for me, and something that

has been able to persist over time and many career changes.

It's the one through line that exists across many, many different sounding careers, but in

every thing that I've ever chosen, human connection was at its core.

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