It's considered an innocuous question, posed to little kids to elicit cute replies, like, "I want to bean astronaut," or "I want to be a ballerina," or "I want to be a pirate." Insert Halloween costumehere.
But this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older in various forms -- forinstance, high school students might get asked what major they're going to pick in college. Andat some point, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" goes from being the cute exerciseit once was to the thing that keeps us up at night. Why?
See, while this question inspires kids to dream about what they could be, it does not inspirethem to dream about all that they could be. In fact, it does just the opposite, because whensomeone asks you what you want to be, you can't reply with 20 different things, though well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like, "Oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker anda psychologist. You have to choose."
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