All people assess their life differently: someone thinks that everything is over at the age of 20, and someone thinks that everything is just beginning at 60. What determines such a spread in expectations? The main role here is played by psychological age, i.e. then, for how many years a person feels himself psychologically.
Necessary
sheet of paper, pen
Instructions
Step 1
Determine if your opinion about life plans strongly differs from the opinions of your peers. Find out if they think life is almost lived, or if they prefer to think it hasn't begun yet. Try to analyze whose opinion is more consistent with reality, and whose more resembles your own.
Step 2
Take a piece of paper and a pencil. Draw a horizontal line. It will symbolize your entire life, from the moment of birth to the moment of death. Draw a line as long as you like. Mark the age at the beginning and end of the segment.
Step 3
Mark the point on the line where you are at the moment. Here you should keep in mind the age indicated in the passport. For example, you plan to live to be 100 years old, and now you are 25. Therefore, the point of the present day should separate the first quarter of the line. Put today's date under the dot.
Step 4
Remember all the significant events that have happened to you in your entire life. They may not be very important, but they greatly influenced your perception of the world. It can be either a wedding or a read book. Label events with dots and rank them according to their importance. When drawing up such a scheme, it should be borne in mind that events can be both positive and negative.
Step 5
Now do the same with the right side of the line, i.e. indicate on it events that have not yet occurred, but are included in your plans. Notice whatever comes to your mind. This can be the birth of a child, and the defense of a doctorate, and the opening of your own business. In a word, everything that you strive for or only dream of.
Step 6
Now compare the number of important points before and after the point of the present day. An overweight in one direction or another will mean your psychological age. If the events of the past are more significant than the events of the future, then your psychological age is greater than that indicated in your passport. Conversely, the bigger your plans for the future, the younger you are psychologically.
