Comments on: “You’re so mature for your age!” What is maturity? http://www.gurugilbert.com/2009/07/21/you%e2%80%99re-so-mature-for-your-age-what-is-maturity/ Adam Gilbert's Entertaining Ideas on Business, Fitness, and Life... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:52:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: ModernSophist http://www.gurugilbert.com/2009/07/21/you%e2%80%99re-so-mature-for-your-age-what-is-maturity/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 ModernSophist Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:23:12 +0000 http://www.gurugilbert.com/?p=472#comment-1166 I think a lot of the people have gotten it wrong or, at least, have not gotten it. I’ve recently been trying to sort out ‘maturity’ on my own, trying to understand what it is. The problem that I see, is that most people define ‘maturity’ as an opposite of ‘immaturity,’ so that, instead of it being a specific action on its own, it’s just not behaving a certain way. This says a lot, as though we naturally assume the immature actions first, or area always wary of them. But maturity isn't, as a lot of people tend to assign it, just a matter of being precocious or even cautious. What we need is a more specific definition of maturity, and not just some general sense of doing good or making good decisions. I don’t think it has anything to do with what you choose do do, but how you make those choices. <a href="http://modernsophist.com/?p=448" rel="nofollow">See what you think about my take on it, in “How to Be a Grownup”</a> I think a lot of the people have gotten it wrong or, at least, have not gotten it. I’ve recently been trying to sort out ‘maturity’ on my own, trying to understand what it is. The problem that I see, is that most people define ‘maturity’ as an opposite of ‘immaturity,’ so that, instead of it being a specific action on its own, it’s just not behaving a certain way. This says a lot, as though we naturally assume the immature actions first, or area always wary of them. But maturity isn’t, as a lot of people tend to assign it, just a matter of being precocious or even cautious.

What we need is a more specific definition of maturity, and not just some general sense of doing good or making good decisions. I don’t think it has anything to do with what you choose do do, but how you make those choices. See what you think about my take on it, in “How to Be a Grownup”

]]> By: Guru Gilbert » How bliss is ignorance? The dark side of entrepreneurship http://www.gurugilbert.com/2009/07/21/you%e2%80%99re-so-mature-for-your-age-what-is-maturity/comment-page-1/#comment-1120 Guru Gilbert » How bliss is ignorance? The dark side of entrepreneurship Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:04:10 +0000 http://www.gurugilbert.com/?p=472#comment-1120 [...] could make you insane if you’re not emotionally mature. But then again, I think you have to be nuts to start a company in the first [...] [...] could make you insane if you’re not emotionally mature. But then again, I think you have to be nuts to start a company in the first [...]

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