I have always liked the story of Grandma Moses, who once said: "Looking back on my life, before the age of eighty, I had been unknown and lived a peaceful life, and after the age of eighty, unpredictable karma pushed me to the top." At the age of 76, she was still a peasant woman with no background in painting;However, at the age of 80, he held a solo exhibition, which caused a sensation all over the world.
When Grandma Moses was 100 years old, a young Japanese man who traveled on the water wrote to him, saying that he was 30 years old and was very confused, and he didn't know whether to give up his job as a doctor who didn't like him but had a stable income. Grandma Moses wrote back: "Do what you love, and God will be happy to open the door to success for you, even if you are 80 years old." Later, this young man became a well-known famous writer Junichi Watanabe.
On the long road of life, ups and downs are the norm, there will be many difficulties and setbacks, and often go into the trough, standing at the crossroads of life, the road ahead is confused, how to choose?
The Developmental Psychology of Reinventing the Self is based on Erikson's "Eight Stages of Personality Development" by Irish psychologist Maureen Gaffney, which pioneered the expansion of the key stages of life and explored the developmental tasks of each stage.
When there are unexpected turns in our lives, when we face unprecedented challenges, when we reach middle age and want a better future, these periods hide key turning points, and they are also opportunities to reshuffle our lives, learn to re-examine, self-evaluate, and regain our lives.
The author of this book traces the trajectory of psychological development at different stages of life, and summarizes three basic psychological drivers: intimacy drive, autonomy drive, and competence drive. The three driving forces are interrelated and closely related to life, and this book introduces how the three driving forces of intimacy, autonomy, and competence are reflected in the ten development tasks of the new life course.
From infants to teenagers, to adulthood, and finally to old age, we need to think well at each stage, look back on the past, and figure out the impact of the past on us, so as to recognize our current self well, think about what we want to be in the future, and the problems we encounter can be driven by the three driving forces to better complete the development of each stage and help us live a happy, fulfilling and successful life.
Mo Yan said: There is no too late start in life, only too early to give up, you start late, may not have no good progress, you are behind, may not always be inferior to others. Talking in situ may not lead to results;Give it your all along the way, and you'll definitely get something!
The Time for Life – The Developmental Psychology of Reinventing the Self tells us that at any stage of personal development, you can rediscover yourself and rewrite your life, and that the story of life is never over, no matter where you are, it is the right time for life.