I teach people how to become more mature. Myself included.
Why?
Because the lack of Maturity is at the root of all the world’s problems.
It took me a United Nations mission in Laos to realise that.
Implementing a project in northern Laos
All the short-sightedness, corruption and lack of work ethics in the country. The repressive, ineffective regime.
The pompousness and petty competition among the international agencies.
I was new to the sector and was eager to learn and fit in. For a while, big words and grand frameworks impressed me. I worked 12 hours a day to implement projects with little or no impact.
Gradually, I came to my senses. I left meetings frustrated and dispirited thinking: “they need to grow up”.
That is where the seed of the League of Adults was sown.
Since then, I have been walking on a Road to Maturity. Stopped by stimulating pubs. Entered into conversations with grassing cows. Bathed naked in mountain lakes. Both metaphorically and in real life.
3 things I have learned:
#1. I also need to grow up (surprise!). Improve my critical thinking. Be kind to me. Less judgemental towards others. I am working on it.
#2. I have become even more convinced that the cause of all the world’s problems is a lack of Maturity.
From poverty to Putin. From shrinking forests to expanding waste lines.
#3. It would take less than we think to do something about it. The problems are in our heads.
If we all grew up a few inches we would have fewer Putins. More Zelenskys. Fewer Harvey Weinsteins. More Harriet Tubmans.
🇳🇴 I come from Norway, which explains a lot. ♦️ Been a foreigner most of my adult life. That explains even more about who I am. 🍻 Able to get along with most people. From illiterate farmers to ministers. ♦️ Good at seeing people as they are. Despise snobbery or anything fake.
♦️ Never been much concerned about being popular. Do not take myself seriously. ♦️ Calm with a temper seething underneath. Hence, my tendency to become frustrated. 📚 My favourites: Books. Nature. Wine🍷