Self Knowledge
CHAPTER 3.SELF-KNOWLEDGE : GROWTH & MATURITY The Ultimate Test of Emotional Maturity One of the more puzzling aspects of the way we’re built is that our emotional development does not necessarily or automatically keep pace with our physical growth. We can be fifty-five on the outside and four and a half in terms of our impulses and habitual manner of communicating – just as we can be on the threshold of adulthood physically while an emotional sage within. In order to assess our own and others’ emotional development, we can make use of a single deceptively simple question that quickly gets to the core of our underlying emotional ‘age’. When someone on whom we depend emotionally lets us down, disappoints us, or leaves us hanging and uncertain, what is our characteristic way of responding? There are three methods which indicate emotionally immature behaviour (we might grade ourselves on a scale of 1-10 according to our propensities). Firstly: we might sulk....
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