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kleinbl00  ·  4358 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why You Truly Never Leave High School

As a single page. You could amend the post.

A great read. I would have highlighted

    It turns out that just before adolescence, the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain that governs our ability to reason, grasp abstractions, control impulses, and self-­reflect—undergoes a huge flurry of activity, giving young adults the intellectual capacity to form an identity, to develop the notion of a self. Any cultural stimuli we are exposed to during puberty can, therefore, make more of an impression, because we’re now perceiving them discerningly and metacognitively as things to sweep into our self-concepts or reject (I am the kind of person who likes the Allman Brothers). “During times when your identity is in transition,” says Steinberg, “it’s possible you store memories better than you do in times of stability.”

Rather than "corrosive, traumatizing effects" of high school, the article itself is about the period of neural plasticity we experience in adolescence and the impact that has on socialization. Boo hiss for the title writer (not you).





user-inactivated  ·  4358 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for that, I saw the six and groaned :).