Our Problem Is Immaturity, But Who's Going To Own Up To That?

Sure there’s such a thing as hard work and skills development and with maturity it’s easy to recognise and respond to the need for both. The point is, hard or skillful work does not mean mature thinking and behaviour, and it’s immaturity that can’t cope with, solve or even acknowledge the complexity of the problems we face.

The assumption is that psychological maturity develops automatically with age, which it doesn't.

The assumption is that we should instinctively know how to psychologically grow up, which is absolutely not the case. 

The assumption is that we have been taught how to develop maturity, which we haven't.

The assumption is that corporate, political and organisational leaders are mature, which is profoundly untrue. They can be amongst the least mature, but the most confident or driven (driven by what makes for an interesting discussion).

The only way immaturity (less mature than is needed to effectively deal with the problem) can solve complex problems, is either by dismissing or ignoring large chunks of the problem or the whole problem itself.

Our problem is a profound lack of maturity, measured against the complexity of the problems we face. And almost everyone is looking to the next person to solve their problem of not being able to understand the problems to begin with.

Or we ignore large chunks or the entirety of the problem and leave it to the leaders ...