1. The person who is mature has overcome the childish attitude of his personal considerations and desires are primary.
2. The mature person has learned that his greatest satisfactions come, not from being waited upon and ministered to, but rather in contributing to the happiness and welfare of others.
3. He has learned to derive his satisfaction from productive effort and from cooperation with other individuals.
4. He has learned to stand on his own in a crisis rather than take refuge under mother’s apron, as was natural when he was a child.
5. He has learned to endure hardships and discomforts without giving vent to emotional outbursts.
6. He has learned to face crises squarely and make his decisions with respect to future considerations rather than yield to immediate comforts and satisfactions.
7. He has learned to treat his emotional responses as his personal property and personal concern rather than imposing his tensions and emotional expressions on others who are not primarily concerned with his own experiences.
8. Once the personality has become impregnated with the concept of unselfish service, maturity is aglow.
9. The individual must learn to forego his personal preferences in order to be of more complete service to his friends and associates.
