Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

A quote by Rabbi Joshua Leibman.

Star Trek was an attempt to say Joshua Leibman.

Star Trek was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins

not just to tolerate but to take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

A quote by Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.

What is maturity?

Let's contemplate that, shall we?

Let's contemplate it together.

Have you noticed that some people are mature and others, in fact most, are immature?

Surely you've noticed this in your short period on this planet.

Have you ever wondered what makes that difference?

And why would anyone want to be mature? And what is the process for how to become mature?

What does that even mean? What does that look like?

I'm going to give you an extensive list here of what constitutes maturity and immaturity.

But I also want to help you not just to give you the answers, but to help you to contemplate this stuff for yourself.

Because it's not obvious what maturity is.

It's difficult to define, I have to spend many hours contemplating it,

explicating it to myself so that I could share here with you.

But let's start off our inquiry here by acknowledging that you don't know what maturity is.

I mean you know what that word means you can look it up in the dictionary but what does it really look like to be a mature human being?

What does that process?

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