Next Steps 2.0 - Moving To Maturity

2. Our past experiences, both positive and negative.

As long as we have lived upon the earth, we have been logging experiences. Each of these experiences has had an influence on how we think about life in general. Even though all of these experiences were real, not all of the conclusions that we have drawn from them are accurate. For some of us our experiences were very limited. We may have lived in one city all of our life or we may have been raised in a military family that moved every year or two. Each of these experiences will have a bearing on how we think about life. For some of us our experience can be narrow in the sense that we had very little interaction with other cultures, other ethnicities and other races. This fact will shape how we see the world and how we relate to others.

Question to Ponder: “Have you drawn any conclusions from some of your past positive or negative experiences that you later realized were not accurate?”

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