In a recent blog , pastor Carey Nieuwhof cited this quote from Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt: “1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” Some adult development researchers state that we tend to define “the world as we know it” based on what we experienced between the ages of 13 and 15. This is when we are becoming proto-adults and everything that happens in our lives makes an indelible impression on us. There is certainly some truth to this, but we must remember that we are free to accept these concepts or reject them. They are informative but they are not deterministic. If I was raised with a...
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