What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com

The crucial new idea is that there are two different neural and psychological systems that interact to turn children into adults. Over the past two centuries, and even more over the past generation, the developmental timing of these two systems has changed. That, in turn, has profoundly changed adolescence and produced new kinds of adolescent woe. The big question for anyone who deals with young people today is how we can go about bringing these cogs of the teenage mind into sync once again.

This might be a more important question for the future than we think. When children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later the number of people behaving in a way we used to ascribe to teenagers increase dramatically we are increasingly living in a world where those who shape it are behaving like teenagers… Can this effect have even more impact than e g an aging Western society will? Meaning more teenage logic??

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    Oddly reminiscent of Bruce Sterling’s “Holy Fire.”
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    What a bunch of bull…it isn’t that there is something wrong with the teenage mind it is that the adults have forgotten...
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    Currently working in a studio that has partnered up with a EEG software company. I’m pretty sure these studies will have...
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