This is an exercise book which the reader should fill the blank. It would give you explanatory paragraph before the exercise materials. At the end of this book, you will get to know The School of Life ideal of what "mature" is. Spoiler alert: it is not a romantic one. It is realistic one.

This book reminds me of the teen quizzes in the 90's. "How Emotionally Mature Are You?" is great not so much for the quiz, but for the analysis of our choices.

There is, however, a contradiction in this book that we are encouraged to seek depth in life, but on the other hand, should not to waste precious moments of our lives on things that don't interest us. How do you grow if you never do anything uncomfortable? Overall, this is an entertaining book.

One of the great things about our current societal mood - amidst what seems to be a breakdown - is that more and more people are becoming aware of their own mental and emotional well-being. We are so quick to react negatively without understanding we all share similar weaknesses. We have been so distracted by arbitrary career and relationship goals that we have not been honest with ourselves about what we REALLY need and want from life. The book does a great job of touching on these points and more.

Thanks for the advanced copy!

I found this book quite a struggle to engage with and at times the tone felt condescending.

I did enjoy the conversations this book entertains about what defining emotional maturity and how fuzzy the topic can be. Moreover, I did think it made some interesting points about what looks like emotional immaturity can actually be a sign of maturity and the naturalness of being emotional immature rather than pathologising it.

However, overall this book felt more like an opinion piece than a factual evaluation of emotional maturity which made a lot of the points made feel quite subjective. The structure felt a bit like an extended questionnaire which whilst being a decent way of raising points, made it kind of boring to get through as it was essentially an opinion piece q&a spread over many pages.

This book has some engaging conversations and interesting questions as worksheets.
I wish it were more layered, nuanced and refined like some other School of Life books, though this is an easy and quick read and still informative and insightful.

This was quite the let down. I was hoping for a concise booklet that doubles as a workbook. Unfortunately, it consists mostly of questions that seem a bit "Buzzfeed Aritcle"-coded in it's depth.

"How Emotionally Mature Are You?" is an interesting prompt to focus on considering that in order to actually know the results of the quiz in this book you need to be able to make accurate judgments about yourself. I would consider this difficult if you are emotionally immature so I feel as though the results aren't very dependable. Another questionable decision is the layout of the book itself. For each prompt in the self led quiz there is a rational made by the author right after it. This makes it tedious to actually receive your results and doesn't encourage reading the actual content about psychology and improving yourself. The questions themselves could sometimes be redundant and with clearly biased answers such as "how would you react in a stressful situation" with one answer being "anger" and the other being "reassess". Clearly one answer is more mature. However, the rationales do provide curious insights such as whether or not jealousy is emotionally mature. I genuinely enjoyed the conversational nature of the writing style, as it made it easier to understand the concepts being introduced. To improve the book I would probably put all the questions at the beginning and categorize them based on situation. Then in the back each category could have its own content with the addition of statistics, anecdotes, interviews, or studies. These more objective sources would help support the interesting content.

For each question, only 2 options were given and they were on the complete opposite sides of each other in terms of extremes ; there were no middle ground choices and because of this, I feel as though it doesn’t allow for the most accurate measure of emotional maturity. In reality, nothing is ever black and white as the choices for these questions appear.

I don’t necessarily agree with ALL of the advice given in this book but that’s based on my individual experiences. With that being said, there WERE a lot of helpful, concrete tips and quotes that resonated with me quite deeply.

This is a take it or leave it book, meaning, everything it states may not apply to you or your experiences, but there is valuable information that you will be able to relate to as a human being nonetheless. Take what you can from this book and leave the parts that don’t apply to your experiences/life.

This book desperately needs to be reviewed by an editor. Theendlesscombinedwords throughout the entire book was driving my OCD absolutely NUTS. If you can look past that, it was well worth the read with valuable perspectives and information. Nobody is without faults and we could all stand to work on our emotional maturity as adults.

Thank you NetGalley and The School Of Life for the advanced readers copy of this book!