It’s Time To Grow Up
It takes a long time to grow up. To drive home this fact, there’s a saying among psychiatrists that it takes 50 years to overcome the first 20. The good news, says UCLA Medical School psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Marmer, is that unlike others species, we are not restrained by our instincts alone. We are able to learn from our parents, our experiences and our culture. Bad news is that it takes a long time to achieve maturity.
In this episode of PragerU, Dr. Marmer details five characteristics of maturity. “To possess them all,” he says, “you will have happier, deeper and more productive life.”
