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For example, giving a break for one or two years during or after university may benefit brain plasticity - the ability of the brain to rewire itself by forming new wires. It may also nourish free-thinking and new abilities, in addition to enhancement of motivation and impetus. Extending the time for emerging adulthood does not mean just not doing anything and watching the world pass by. It is about doing cognitively inducing and challenging tasks. For instance, the Mormon religion always motivates teenagers to take two years off from college to go on missions. Therefore, lots of them finish college when they are 24 rather than 22 like the majority. In neurological meaning, they are near to full adulty potential before they look for jobs, study at graduate school, or form a family. If other 20-somethings applied this model, they might be more ready for the hardships and liabilities of adulthood. Chapter 5 - We form new abilities and discover new capacities as we grow. There comes a moment in life when it is easier to forget things or make stupid errors. This age is generally considered as the time people "left their first days behind". Still, the idea that we reach a cognitive peak in our youth and slowly lose it afterward is not entirely true. Scientific research has demonstrated that we are getting more intelligent and more inventive as time passes. Researchers Laura Germine and Joshua Hartshorne found out something sweeping in 2015. By evaluating the cognitive abilities of approximately 50,000 participants with digital brain tests, they discovered that various cognitive abilities develop at various times. For instance, the pace at which we handle information tops during our late teens, while our short-term memory proceeds to get better until the age of 25 before going down for another 10 years. The skill to measure complicated motives - containing others’ emotional conditions - tops at the ages of 40s or 50s. Furthermore, the crystallized wit of ours - our collected information of realities and experiences during our whole life - only tops around the ages of late 60s or early 70s. Therefore, with age, we go through some cognitive drops in some aspects, however, we also obtain new cognitive abilities in other aspects. This can be seen brightly when you think of the discoveries of the Seattle Longitudinal Study from the University of Washington, a study that started in the 1950s and proceeds to reveal how flexible our brains are. Sherry Wills, today’s leader of the research, lately found that air-traffic controllers are inclined to decrease in the pace of cognitive processing and short-term memory as years go by, however, their performance continues at the same level. The reason for this is that the two abilities that are significant for air-traffic controllers, spatial reasoning and emotional calm, advance during middle age. The adult brain can do a lot more than we believe it can. By gathering and connecting years of knowledge and actions, it can re-adapt to middle age. For instance, a new study demonstrates that the middle-aged brain is more restful, less disturbed, and can better handle social circumstances. These are all happy news for late bloomers. As long as you care about your health, education, and the world, you can benefit from lots of cognitive tops you will reach in life. Chapter 6 - There is a requirement for a new career path that empowers continuous blooming. As a child, how would you dream of your future career to be? Maybe you imagined flying across the world, encountering amazing people, or founding a business that would shake the ground. Unfortunately, not a lot of people can attain such aims. The reason for this is that the prevention of the standard career path. As a teenager, we are raised with the idea that we need to find an occupation and stay on that for a long time to increase the payment. Increase in the experience? Only wasting time. Furthermore, we are raised with the idea that it is normal that when 60 years old, people retire. Although this idea might be meaningful once, that should alter. In the majority of firms, good workers are prized with better titles, more control, and more payment - until when this does not function. Once employees reached their maximum skills and their desire to work longer hours, firms cannot continue increasing their payment; it is expensive and blocks younger workers to promote. This is the reason firms leave people when they attained their top point - an exercise named in law and accounting firms as “up-and-out”. Although this is meaningful from some perspective, it is devastation of human resources. Lots of people who are fired at the standard age of retirement are still skillful, knowledgeable workers who can contribute greatly. The author thinks that our world should change this mentality. Rather than considering careers as lines through the “up-and-out” path, we should consider those as an arc, or multiple arcs, that every employee that “past their peak” can contribute a lot. How is this career arc? Initially, there is no defined age for retiring but payment increases would cease and decreases might occur. Furthermore, titles would stop getting better in the end - for instance, a vice president might turn out to be a senior consultant. Everybody is worthy of the chance to advance and establish their path. This is why today we need to realize and honor that we are distinct from each other. Also, owing to our distinct backgrounds and capabilities, all of us can develop a distinct way to bloom. Chapter 7 - Isolating ourselves from cultural impacts would assist us in developing our ways. As he is raised, Erik Wahl was told to obtain stellar grades, earn a place in a top university and find an occupation that would bring him a fortune. This mindset functioned for a while. He started his career at an agency that arranged keynote and recreation speakers. In a year, he was a partner of the company. Then the economic downturn of 2008 occurred. Organizations quit reserving entertainers for commercial exhibitions, and in days, what Wahl was working for disappeared. However, he did not know he was near to earn more than he imagined. Since the past mindset he was raised with was useless from then on, Wahl discovered another way. He began meeting with artists - who he had always loved their mindset - and started acquiring skills in painting. In the beginning, he was not good at that. However, as he practiced, he improved. Ultimately, he could earn more as a performance artist than he could as an investor and businessman. When we carefully think, we can see that we are impacted by a culture that is created by our family, friends, and society. This culture impacts our ambitions and how we see ourselves, and can frequently bring us to places that are not suitable for us, such as Wahl’s stress to fit made him lose sight of his artistic capabilities. Therefore, if you could not have the opportunity to bloom, observe the cultural impacts that make you stay behind. For instance, if your parents are forcing you to have a job that is not suitable for you, it might be the moment to notify your independence from their thoughts. This should not be denying your love or revolting against their anticipations; this should be just selecting the way that would make you bloom. It should be noted that notifying independence is not simple, specifically if you are talking about your loved ones. This is the reason that in the following chapter, we will talk about the ways to get rid of the cultural impacts that prevent you to bloom - and begin developing your destiny. Chapter 8 - Late bloomers should recreate themselves to attain the fullest of themselves. Have you ever sensed that you cannot get rid of a past, antiquated version of yourself? For instance, in high school, maybe you were “Katy the band nerd”. However, 20 years later, your peers still tell you this name although you have matured, had kids, and not playing clarinet anymore. This type of condition shows itself in the workplace as well, and late bloomers frequently encounter that. It does not matter how you work to upgrade yourself, your manager will try to press you not to improve. If this is the situation, you should break free. If a growing rose is getting bigger than its container, it has to be taken up from the roots and the container should be changed. If you are a late bloomer that could not find an opportunity to advance, you should do the same. This means you should “re-pot” yourself to attain your best version. This might contain meeting with similar-minded individuals, changing your occupation, or even moving from your place to another place. Yes, changing your environment in this way may sound harsh, but it is beneficial. Let’s examine the late-blooming author Kimberly Harrington. As a copywriter and creative manager of advertising firms, she had always dreamt of writing long essays and books. However, life in Los Angeles was not suitable for creativity. She was acquainted with everybody in the professional life, there was always rivalry around, conditions were too demanding, and it was expensive to socialize and always be “cool”. Therefore, she removed her roots and moved to rural Vermont, where she was encircled by scholars, environmentalists, and people who were truly concerned about the world.