"In dozens of studies that have followed people over years and decades, the trends are clear. **Most of us become more conscientious, confident, caring, and calm with life experience**. A lot of that change happens between the ages of twenty and forty, but, in fact, there’s no epoch in the human life span where personality stops evolving. Collectively, these data demonstrate what personality psychologists now call “the maturity principle.”" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[patience]], [[slowing-down-not-stopping]], [[millennials]] **Source** -- [[20241030 - B - Grit]]