We've got the front of the brain here, the prefrontal cortex, and the back of the brain here. And red colors indicate immaturity , blue colors indicate maturity. So let me see if I can get this started.
So a lot of these supposed ESG screens are kind of BS. But I think that's just a sign of the immaturity of this movement. I mean if you think about it, we probably spent the better part of two centuries developing a financial infrastructure around shareholder capitalism.
So any of you parents out there know what a huge energy suck it can be to raise a child So why would Mother Nature design us this way? And the argument that we find most compelling is that this prolonged period of immaturity and hanging around our parents gives us the luxury of a lot of years of brain plasticity. In other words, it gives us a long period of time to do all of the massive amount of learning and practice
And they remember so vividly being that angsty teenager. And they want so badly to see this teenage girl overcome her immaturity and reconnect with her mother. And many of these readers are now parents themselves.
So I just wonder if you could talk a little bit about what is effective besides-- for instance, let me give you an example of what I think is not effective. One is my emotional immaturity myself, getting angry at my relatives, as I have. Kaepernick, the guy-- I'm sure I mispronounced his name-- the football player who got the Amnesty International's highest award.
I think is eternal and inevitable and just the way things are. And that maybe our intuitions that life is supposed to be more beautiful were just immaturity , and now we have to put up with the way things are. I spent years trying to find, trying to figure out, trying to understand.
Because to me, it was the world just seems really immature. When I was examining myself, I saw my own immaturity . And then when I started thinking about things globally, I was like, wait, we can't do fundamental, basic things.
And there was just something about that that was like, this is everything that this is about. And they also have such clarity, even in their kind of immaturity , that we felt like that was the way to remind people
'Why keep escaping from what makes us us? As we are in a vocation rooted in feelings, let us not forget that immaturity is frequently reflected in the belief that strong feelings ratify every action. In other words, and to be prescriptive, let us be mature.
mind is determined to expand its repertoire of experiences and bent is bent on avoiding any specialization that threatens to interrupt the search for Alternatives and Novelty many people would call that approach to life a crisis immaturity or being out of touch with reality it could also be called The New American Dream screw the simple pursuit of financial stability here's defining
way that we develop over time, that seems to have been the thing that was really selected for. And the most distinctive thing about our life history is that we have a much longer childhood, a much longer period of immaturity than any other species by far. So if you look at our closest primate relatives like the chimp, um chimp babies are producing