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Brats: The Highly-Adapted, New Model Human!

December 9, 2006 by Liz

Not Just Kids at Heart

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Have you bumped into full-grown adults lately who seem to have missed the maturity train? Maybe you’ve been one. I know I have. I’m not talking about kids at heart. I mean kids in most all behaviors including these.

  • short attention spans
  • unexplainable sense of fashion
  • heightened need for fast action, novelty, and sensation
  • lack of respect for tradition
  • unpredictability, and lack of balance in priorities
  • a tendency to overreact

When I was a kid, we had a name for when we acted too much that way.

I found out his week — we’re no longer brats!

Now at least one scientist, B.G. Charlton, is saying that immature behavior is the best thing going for the human race.
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Filed Under: Business Life, Outside the Box, Strategy/Analysis, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: bc, Bruce-Charlton, flexibility, Geeks-and-Geezers, innovation, Joi-Ito, psychological-neotony, Warren-Bennis

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