As an adult, you have to invest in yourself. Your earning can increase when you focus on learning.

After leaving an academic career, most of the people think that we have to earn only and forget about learning. One of the studies on adult neurogenesis shows that when we learn something new or engage in new activities, our brain rewires itself just like babies or children, and hence improves cognitive fitness.

Piaget’s cognitive development theory describes how cognitive development of children and teenagers. Other developmental psychologists have suggested the fifth stage of cognitive development, known as “Postformal Operational Thinking.”

“Postformal operational thinking” is often described as more flexible or logical. In this stage, people are willing to accept moral or intellectual complexities, and dialectical than previous stages in development. Dialectical means any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments.

Early adulthood is the time of relativistic thinking, where young people become aware of more complexities in life. However, very few people tend to do so, and most of the people practice unstructured pattern of thinking by indulging themselves in gossips or addictive internet application.