Possibility

I recently learned of the work of psychologist Ellen Langer.  This article gives an overview.  There's a lot of interesting things, but the following quote caught my attention:

"Langer believes that the more we adhere to labels and categories, the less open we are to possibility."

This idea immediately struck me as true.  Why label myself as middle aged, a fisheries biologist, a yoga teacher, a musician, or any other thing?  I'm just me.  I am a certain number of years old, I have a degree in fisheries science,  I teach yoga, and I play several different instruments.  But I am not defined by those things, they are simply a part of my experience and how I have expressed my life so far.  They don't limit the possibilities of what I may do next.