The School of Life | Why Some Adults Can't... "Act Their Age" @theschooloflifetv | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
In contact with given challenges, we leave behind our adult faculties and slip very quickly into a child-like spectrum marked by panic, rage, despair, terror and appeasement. The specific occasions that shift us from adult to child can serve as an individual guide to our own traumas…
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“Sometimes at moments of particular stress, one adult will turn to another and say: ‘Stop behaving like a child.’ Or even, ‘Act your age.’
This isn’t merely rude - though it might be that too. In contact with given challenges, we revert back to an earlier stage in our development. We leave behind our adult faculties, the ones associated with reason, logic, calm, strength, forbearance and perspective, and slip very quickly into a child-like spectrum marked by panic, rage, despair, terror and appeasement.
The specific occasions that shift us from adult to child are an individual guide to our own traumas…”
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Produced in collaboration with:
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Title animation produced in collaboration with
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In contact with given challenges, we leave behind our adult faculties and slip very quickly into a child-like spectrum marked by panic, rage, despair, terror and appeasement. The specific occasions that shift us from adult to child can serve as an individual guide to our own traumas…
FURTHER READING
You can read more on this and other subjects here: bit.ly/3KUmwrM
“Sometimes at moments of particular stress, one adult will turn to another and say: ‘Stop behaving like a child.’ Or even, ‘Act your age.’
This isn’t merely rude - though it might be that too. In contact with given challenges, we revert back to an earlier stage in our development. We leave behind our adult faculties, the ones associated with reason, logic, calm, strength, forbearance and perspective, and slip very quickly into a child-like spectrum marked by panic, rage, despair, terror and appeasement.
The specific occasions that shift us from adult to child are an individual guide to our own traumas…”
MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE
Watch more films on SELF in our playlist:
bit.ly/TSOLself
SOCIAL MEDIA
Feel free to follow us at the links below:
Facebook: facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon
X: twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife
Instagram: instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/the-school-of-life-for-business
CREDITS
Produced in collaboration with:
Natalia Biegaj
nb-animation.com
Title animation produced in collaboration with
Vale Productions
valeproductions.co.uk
