Instinctively, we organise things into the little boxes that we carry around in our brains. Sometimes we are wise enough to see that our boxes are too little or too few, but often we are quite skilled at squeezing our story into whatever boxes we happen to be carrying around in our minds. In doing so we fail to recognise how important and influential this interpretative function is. Life will always look like the categories you bring to it, and what you do will always be determined by the way you have organised your understanding of your own story.
...The overgeneralised category of 'adult' tends to ignore the fact that a human beings we are always in some kind of process of change...
Lost in the Middle, p34,35
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