One of my favourites
'Sir Alex Ferguson' the manager of the football club Manchester United said in
many of his encounters with the press that all the players mature at the age of
24 or 25. Most of the players will be in top form at these ages. But some of
the players will get matured before 24 like Messi, Christiano Ronaldo. Both of
them are world class players. You know players will be in peak form when they
get matured. This applies to the people in other professions. You can see a
sudden rise in the curve when you draw a graph between career life time and
performance.
I don't know how to
define maturity exactly. It is very difficult to get matured in all the aspects
of life. But, getting maturity in his/her owns profession is very important.
See in the case of Messi and Christiano Ronaldo, they are hardcore professional
football players. They got all the fame in football. I don't think so both of
them matured in other aspects. Sometimes they act really weird inside the
ground as well as outside. Some people say those are all some tactics in
football. I don't believe it. I'm not criticizing them. Everyone have their own
preference. I'm just taking a situation. They don't have control over their
emotions.
The first step to get
matured in the profession is to have control over the emotions regarding the
profession. The profession may be a student or businessman or
government officer or anything. According to me, profession means it
the thing we can't get rid of it under any circumstances and at the same time it
will support us financial. There is no right or wrong action in the profession.
That means we can do whatever we want to do in order to achieve the objectives
of the profession. I'm going to talk about two extremes a cop and a
robber. One is ethical and other is unethical. Their objectives are different.
One thing common between them is both are professionals in their own way.
According to me
maturity means contemplating about their profession so that they can move fast
in their career. When people get matured, they feel the change. They feel like
that they have a backup to help them. It's like having a third hand. They are
more confident before. They start believe themselves.
I have seen people who
matured earlier in their life time. That's really good and I appreciate it. I
read somewhere mostly women get matured earlier than men. It may be true.
Sometimes people become matured due to spontaneous failure fission reaction (a
chain of failures). When they fail, that embarrassment happened to them
due to failure made them hard like rock so that no one can break them. Some are
gifted naturally.
Think, all boys seek for
matured girls and all girls seek for matured boys, professors seek for matured
students, coach seeks for matured players, boss seeks for matured sub-ordinate.
Matured people only can handle uncertainties and they can perform under
pressure.
According to Al Ries and
Jack Trout, in business the first movers always have the advantage. Same thing,
person who matures earlier always has the upper hand. She/he will have their
hands nearer to the ripened fruit.
