Book excerpt: Read 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 Secret of Maturity, Fourth Editon • 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, this book is for you. Education Lacking • 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? • The research for this book uncovered many 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 you must decide what to do with all the answers. • So be responsible for how you assimilate the answers and put them into practice. Condensed Material • Quite a few of this book’s paragraphs summarize concepts 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. • Might we suggest that you first pursue those concepts that are personally relevant? • That will do you the best today because those concepts will be emotionally valuable. • Read the suggested references to those concepts, and locate other related works at the library or through Internet searches. • If you learn and apply the lessons contained in this book, results are guaranteed. Great Results • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they are in better health because they can handle stress better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they have a better love life because they can handle interpersonal relationships and communication better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find a better career or work experience because they can better handle challenges, conflicts, stressors, work politics, and work pressures.