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Adolescence: How to Build an Adult

How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality

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The Coddling of the American Mind

There seems to be some rapidly changing expectations and also desires of adolescence. I think, from a theoretical perspective, that waves of brain development would follow along this slower time line. By transiting what the culture is doing or expecting of us, it would actually slow the brain development. We have no proof that it's bad. What it means is that windows of plasticity and the effects of experience are continuing longer.

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