This conversational book is for keen and striving young people between 18 and 28. It details 30 different subjects relating to young people working to achieve self direction - endeavoring to go from the dependent direction imposed while growing up, to the freedom of self direction. Between the ages of 18 to 28 are the ten years it takes to get over being a kid. This book takes them through the thoughts they need to experience to make sure it happens. The book is dealing with this next development in human life that has to occur between 18 and 28. Just as growing up physically has to occur from birth to 18 years of age, achieving self direction is the next necessary development in a human's life that has to happen within the ten years after 18, if it is to be ever achieved. The book describes the importance of self direction as the necessary power for human persons to come to understand the 'why' of their life. The book discusses the problems of achieving the freedom and power of self direction while newly encountering an impersonal world after 18. Topics include: Why it takes 10 years to get over being a kid; On loving what you are born with but what if you don't?; The engineering of luck; Managing your mind knowing how to think the thoughts you want; Confronting the rocks of genetics in personalities; When will you know that you have grown-up?- a test; Managing what people expect from you creating the one reputation you really want; The pixel people in your life taking the shine off your humanity; Is it your nature to be a professional?; Fundamentals of trusting people you recently met; Managing your Internet exposure; What you know about everyone you have never met; What people really want from you a cross-cultural constant; A keyhole to understanding personality look for the organizing power of fear; Joining the traffic of impersonal humanity leaving the road of growing up; On being unique - you are a song that only you can sIng.
