Adults who act childishly in workplaces and homes are avoiding responsibility for their actions. True emotional maturity means choosing how you respond, not just how you feel. The speaker calls this the law of intentionality: past triggers stop controlling you once you decide they won't.
So here is the hard truth about some of the behavior that you see in the workplace, um, maybe at home, in the community. And when you see an adult acting like a child, right, you see like they— their actions are one that are questionable. Like, damn, like, why, why would you say something like that? Or why would you respond like that? It's very important to understand that a lot of people, although they are grown, although they have learned a few things, but very few people have been intentional about developing their level of emotional maturity, right? Emotional maturity. Emotional maturity in its very simplest form is being able to feel a certain kind of way about something and be responsible enough not to act on it, understanding that you are responsible for how you act no matter how you feel. Now, the law of intentionality would suggest that your emotional growth will not just happen. You're going to have to be intentional about it, which means you're going to have to get up every day and through every moment be mindful of just because you feel a certain kind of way doesn't mean you need to act a certain kind of way. You are responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel. And you will know when you have reached emotional maturity when the things you used to trip off of, you just walk over now. Peace.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
