The Secret of Maturity, Third Edition
About this audiobook
Read The Secret of Maturity to Discover—
• How To Live a Mature Life
• How To Own the Power of Emotional Responsibility
• How To Stop Buying into Garbage
• What Is Maturity?
This book describes maturity in understandable and practical terms.
• If you want to know what it means to be mature, this book is for you.
• If you want to know how to live a mature life, this book is for you.
• If you want to grow up or know what it means to grow up, this book is for you.
Share Maturity
• With all our means of communication and education, how is it possible that many fundamental concepts and principles continue to remain a secret or a mystery to most people?
• What kind of educational system can call itself “education” and fail to discuss and explore fundamental human qualities like maturity?
Many Avenues to Maturity
• The research for this book uncovered a myriad of ways of approaching the same basic answer for the secret of maturity: maturity is responsibility.
• Most of the answers to “What is maturity?” come from either psychology or philosophy.
• The answers are listed or briefly described throughout the text.
• It is your job to decide what to do with all the answers.
Start practicing what you understand, and more will come to you.
• Condensed Information
• Quite a few of the paragraphs in this book summarize concepts that are expounded in entire volumes elsewhere.
• Since this book is so condensed, it will be most effective when it is revisited after more experience of practicing maturity.
• Do What Works for You
Might we suggest that you first pursue those concepts that strike you as personally relevant?
• They will do you the best today because those concepts will be emotionally valuable to you.
• Read the suggested references to those concepts, and locate other related works at the library or through Internet searches.
Positive Results
• If you learn and apply the lessons contained in this book, results are guaranteed.
• Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that he or she is in better health because he or she can handle stress better.
• Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that he or she has a better love life because he or she can handle interpersonal relationships and communication better.
• Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that he or she has a better career or work experience because he or she can better handle challenges, conflicts, stressors, work politics, and work pressures.
About the author
After more than twenty-five years in the counseling field, Mr. FitzMaurice has refined many principles and methods of counseling. He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. He has more than forty books, most of which are available worldwide from Amazon and other sources.
Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1,650 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs).
To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (REBT and CBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
His writings and interests focus on philosophy, psychology, recovery, self-help, and spirituality.
