self-discovery

English

Etymology

self- +‎ discovery

Noun

self-discovery (uncountable)

1. The learning of what kind of person one really is, or what one really wants to do with one's life.
   • 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     The X-Men films have made an explicit connection between the mutants’ powers and pubescent self-discovery, but perhaps it’s necessary to address the last few movies’ psychosexual subtext.