Yep, it is true. Points to consider: - Your starting maturity makes a big difference. Not everybody is the same, and there's no shame in that. - Not everybody

Yep, it is true. Points to consider: - Your starting maturity makes a big difference. Not everybody is the same, and there's no shame in that. - Not everybody is equally introspective. This is not a controversial statement. Not everybody is equally intelligent either, and the two things don't always correlate. - Setting arbitrary, absolute chronological milestones on emotional maturity is dumb. I probably didn't learn to consistently have clean laundry on hand until I was in my early 30s. I also had a job where I regularly had to insert myself into life-or-death situations when I was just barely out of my teens, and I was damn good at it. - The assertion that you wouldn't get better a better understanding of your vocation, workplaces, and how people work in general as you deal with them for decade-upon-decade seems a whole lot more outlandish than the counter-claim. - People who claim to have it all figured out ARE full of shit. Life is a mountain, not a mesa. - Things you've dealt with look deceptively easy to deal with when they're in the rear-view mirror.