The 12 ingredients of emotional maturity include:
- Realism - The emotionally mature are realistic about how challenging many things can be. They are fully conscious of the complexities entailed in any project, such as raising a child, starting a business, spending an agreeable weekend with a family, changing the nation, or falling in love. Knowing that something difficult is being attempted doesn’t rob the emotionally mature of ambition, but it does make them more steadfast, calmer, and less prone to panic about the problems that will invariably come their way. Emotionally mature individuals rarely expect anything to be wholly easy or to go entirely well.