Productivity Isn’t Maturity

A therapist explains why there’s more to growing up than completing your to-do list

Kathleen Smith
Forge
Published in
2 min readJun 20, 2021

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How do you measure real growth? As a therapist, this is a question I ask each of my clients. Because when we don’t have an answer, we tend to borrow society’s narratives about success and maturity.

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Kathleen Smith
Forge
Writer for

Kathleen Smith is a therapist and author of the book Everything Isn’t Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down.