"Grown-ups"

"Most people never define who they are as a personality type until their 30’s”. This quote from the TIME article “The Me Me Me Generation” by Joel Stein is interesting to me because there have been so many developments in science over the years that it seems these predictions sep changing. Not so long ago it was thought that a person’s brain fully finished developing in their late teens, now they say it actually happens into their twenties, but then Stein says crucial parts of who we are are still being developed at 30!

I’ve been working on a feature film as an assistant editor these past few weeks and I’ve found it very interesting that my employers feel much different than you would expect regular bosses to be. They are indeed young (I’d estimate early 30’s at most) but they act very laid back and relaxed as if we were all part of the same Emerging Adult group.
This is a change I’ve noticed in young adults lately. Those in higher level positions who are still young (above 30) definitely feel like part of my same generation, unlike someone from the 60’s who would be a more stereotypical kind of adult. I think the millennial generation has been so traumatized with how stern and dry adults used to be that they proposed to themselves to never grow up like that, I know that’s what I’m proposing to myself. Or maybe I’m just reading too much into the “dude’s” and “man’s” that I hear from them.

So I don’t think that Stein or anyone else for that matter is correct in assuming that who we are is ever done developing. We are social and interactive animals who experience the world and others around us day to day. According to Hendry and Kloep, these experiences change us every day and  therefore development is constant and never