can anyone accelerate the process of maturing up? Or is it strictly an attribute of age and life experience?

Answer 1

maturation is achieved on many levels, emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual.

emotional maturation is achieved when you no longer accept excuses from yourself that let you off the hook because you are feeling bad.

inellectual maturation is achieved when you have learned that you don't need to know everything, you simply need to know how to phrase the question properly to get the answer

physical maturation is achieved when your body has completed growing and has all the physical aspects of an adult body.

spiritual maturation is only achieved when you can approach spiritual matters with a child's heart.

Answer 2

I'm more mature than the average person at my age (eighteen). This is somewhat because the process was accelerated.

One element that contributed to this process was the fact that I'm queer. Someone who isn't accepted by society is naturally going to do more thinking. The unaccepted naturally are exposed to more challenges and more adversity than the accepted, and maturity is definitely given a boost by having to deal with these things.

I've also tried to accelerate the rate of my maturity. I force myself into experiences that I don't necessarily expect to like simply to learn more about myself. I'm glad I do that. It's the reason I'm dating my boyfriend (to whom I might as well be married). I at the time was fairly sure that a monogamous, long-term, committed relationship wasn't for me. I got proven wrong. I've learned from the experience.

The best way to mature is to not buy something that society says merely because society says it. Seek actual verification. Think for yourself. Be an individual.

That is how to mature.

Answer 3

I think the maturation process can be sped up by intelligent relfection. Some people go through there experiences and mistakes without learning anything towards solving their problems or gaining new perspective. Reflection is a search for those things.

I aslo think maturity can be sped up by an allowance for independence. As long as other people are going to shelter, shield and make our decisions for us, there is no motivation to develop an independent intelligence.

Answer 4

Your on the right track, Now, you have to put ,ability to learn, remember and education in there and that most of it. Any time you have a death around you you get a life enriching and you will mature with it. So "YES" you can mature at a faster rate if you make plans to do it.
1. work with kids
2. work at an old folks home
3. work at a soup kitchen
4. work in a hospital
5. work with a cop
6. work for VISTA
7. work in a political anything
8. and allot more
Learn people- take a Dale Carnegie class
Learn the old wisdom's - read

Answer 5

When you're a kid your parents know everything, when you're a teenager they know nothing. By the time you're in your early twenties they know a lot again. If you can skip that ignorant teen period while your still a teen you will have matured quickly. In other words, listen to people who are older than you. LISTEN!