Publisher's Synopsis
Read the Secret of Maturity to Discover--
- How To Live a Mature Life
- How To Own the Power of Emotional Responsibility
- How To Stop Owning Garbage that Feels Bad
- 12 New Tables of Information
- More than Twice as Long as the Third Edition
Understand Maturity
- This book describes maturity in understandable and practical terms.
- If you want to know what it means to be mature, this book is for you.
- If you want to know how to live a mature life, this book is for you.
- If you want to grow up or know what it means to grow up, this book is for you.
Share Maturity
- With all our means of communication and education, how is it possible that many fundamental concepts and principles continue to remain a secret or a mystery to most people?
- What kind of educational system can call itself "education" and fail to discuss and explore fundamental human qualities like maturity?
Many Ways to Maturity
- The research for this book uncovered a myriad of ways of approaching the same basic answer for the secret of maturity: maturity is responsibility.
- Most of the answers to "What is maturity?" come from either psychology or philosophy.
- The answers are listed or briefly described throughout the text, but it is your job to decide what to do with all the answers.
- So be responsible for how you assimilate the answers and put them into practice.
Condensed Information
- Quite a few of the paragraphs in this book summarize concepts that are expounded in entire volumes elsewhere.
- Since this book is so condensed, it will be most effective after it has been read and studied many times.
Choose Your Focus
- Might we suggest that you first pursue those concepts that strike you as personally relevant?
- That will do you the best today because those concepts will be emotionally valuable to you.
- Read the suggested references to those concepts, and locate other related works at the library or through Internet searches.
Promised Positive Results
- If you learn and apply the lessons contained in this book, results are guaranteed.
- Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that he or she is in better health because he or she can handle stress better.
- Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that he or she has a better love life because he or she can handle interpersonal relationships and communication better.
- Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that he or she has a better career or work experience because he or she can better handle challenges, conflicts, stressors, work politics, and work pressures.