Introduction
Human developmental process is a logical and semantic journey that all of us have to embark on in order to reach the full potential, and the lifetime is a journey that oftentimes ends up causing one’s death. The infancy and early childhood is a phase of one’s life that records pure dependency on others who work in order to ensure survival of the child. The stage of infancy is of utmost innocence, and the world does not get to children in these days. The roles and social responsibilities of a person change as he or she grows old and mature with the passage of time. However, the psychological profile of a person starts to develop during infancy, and the subconscious initiates to intake information and data those provide oneself with the basis that would assist him or her in the process of growing up both in mental and psychological terms. The males and females have to receive different kind of parental assistance because of their divergent social roles, and modern psychology is moving to consider people social products those their social circles develop over a specific period of time.
Infancy
The early childhood is a totally dependent stage, and parents have to play a defining role at this stage. Still, the elders have to give their kids with required freedom so that they the juniors can develop their independence that would be a critical factor in determining one’s overall success in life. The boy whose parents may decide to bring him up as a girl would definitively emerge as a woman at a later stage of life, and the psychosocial context of one’s childhood would create impeccable impacts on the child’s personality. In this way, the father of modern psychological studies, Freud correctly established the fact that children construct their basic personalities during earliest five years of life, and they spend their entire array of years in this world in strengthening the initial learning.
Early Childhood
Second stage of life is that during, which the children starts to imitate people and their actions. The motor functions start to exert themselves, and they have to develop stronger as a result, and physical independence leads to psychological one with the passage of time. The parents have to give the kids a chance to take on the world, and the seniors have to act as facilitators in the child’s conquest of finding early patterns of success, and the kid at this stage is overwhelmingly curious, and excited. The parents have an ethical duty to let their kids experience life in partial independence, but the dependence on others grew weaker, and the kid has to develop a habit of taking decisions on his or her own. The behavioral experience would give the child the maiden exposure to the world that carries pains and rewards as well, and the kids have to strategize their existence in such a way that permits him or herself to minimize suffering and maximize the attainment of enjoyment as well.
Middle Childhood
During the next stage, the children would grow their brains, and they start to develop ideas, concepts, dreams and goals. They have a blueprint of their lives, and they want to get an opportunity to prove their worth in front of the world, and the educational career will remain instrumental in this regard. At the same time, the teachers have to integrate the concept of self-directed learning in the lives of students, and by the end of this stage; the kids will reaffirm their belief in themselves. The theory of cognitive learning would allow the kids to confirm their personalities in the light different subjects those will pave their ways into various professional fields.
The children’s subconscious commences to kick in with the basic learning, and the mind meticulously works day in and day out to craft links those are going to permit the person to find what he or she loves, and the relevant fields those can give the subject the chance to do what he or she loves to do.
The kids studying at an elementary school would have a much clearer picture of his or her future than that in the mind of a college student because the former group remembers what it wanted out of their lives, but the latter one experienced too much exposure to the world that saps their creative and innovative skills. The kids in third stage of life do not necessarily listen to the thoughts, guidance and beliefs of their parents. The children like to learn by experience, and they would take risks of substantial nature in order to satisfy their curious souls to say the least.
Adolescence
The fourth stage of life gives kids with an opportunity to process the gathered information that they derived from practically living in the world of material and substance. The thinking process warrants the individual to establish some rules about life, and the methods those can aid him or her in the journey of finding success in life. The children know what they want in their lives, but they have to devise plans in order to realize the intended objectives.
Youth
Fifth phase of life records one’s ability to craft a very serious outlook towards life, and by this time, the clouds of adolescence would wither away. The years of youth will start, and the sense of renewed energy would move from one’s veins, and the world would appear as a stage where a youngster would have to perform, and he or she will have to go through restless nights due to overwhelming degree of anxiety, and this stage of life memorizes one’s entry into a profession where he or she has the first chance to make a difference in the world.
The economic prosperity would also follow, and the person’s middle years of life would be covered with the instances of professional growth, and he or she is going to attain managerial role in the relevant field of work, and the middle age blesses a person with significant amount disposal income that he or she uses in order to sponsor skiing trips, tourism, cars and even marriage.
Senior Adulthood
The solidified professional development causes people to develop thankfulness towards their societies, and therefore, their self-actualization needs and want to have social legitimacy would increase manifold as well. The people who earned prosperity through sheer hard work and investment of energies would build notable aesthetic sense that would cause the successful persons to develop an urge of doing something great in the final years of their lives.
Steve Jobs and Philosophy of Life
According to Steve Jobs, one needs to integrate greatness in order to make place in the pages of history, and therefore, everyone of us needs to become permanent part of the history, and the kids embark on the journey that according to their innocent minds can let them have fame, but fame comes to those who are great, and in the light of the novel Alchemist, when someone wishes for something from the heart then, the entire universe combines its forces in order to help the individual in the conquest of realizing his or her dream.
Kids, Visions and Journey of Development
The kids see dreams, but they fulfill their visions at a later stage of the life, and the whole life appears as a journey that leads us into the direction of spiritual atonement, and the stages of life summarize into a story that has chapters and subchapters of various sorts, but all of the sections caused us to become better, and the process of evolution remained steady throughout life.
Life is the Process of Making Choices
Again Steve argues that one cannot understand life looking forwards, but he or she can do so by analyzing the past, and the process of growth is the only journey that we travel through, and whether we like it or not, but the nature works all the time in order to give us reasons to challenge our limitations and boundaries.
We will have what we wished for as Children
Eventually, we grow old, and come to know that we have wasted time in doing things those really did not matter, and we start out on a new journey during that we guide people about the need of not repeating the mistakes those we committed in our lives. The final episode of each life is a collection of efforts those one make in order to help others in understanding life as a concept, and elders grow humanistic as they draw near to death.
The philosophy that considers kids as animals, and they acquire personality as they move through number of years. The life is a learning experience, and via social exchange, we disseminate information into the masses, and the aggregate level of understanding grows, and the next generation will have the reason to move forwards in the literally sense.
Conclusion
This paper has talked about a journey that every human has to travel, and the destination would always carry a certain value, and the belief that one is going to die soon would clear all the uncertainty that could stop us from overcoming inertia of fear and laziness. The nature has create each one of us, and therefore, God knows our worth better than we do so, we have to listen to our guts in order to understand our true potential, and the courage to listen to one’s heart would create wall of differentiation between ordinary and extraordinary people. However, great personalities were once normal people, but then, they have decided to make big decisions in life, and living is the practice of making choices, and if one thinks that he or she is on the right path then, one day the person will ultimately find his or her destination. The tale of every human being is similar in terms of difficulties and pains, but when we distance ourselves from the painting then, we see the interconnectedness of the work that bestows it with beauty.
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