Attitudes about morality, or ethical, standards develop and evolve all through life, while our perceptions alter to absorbing an intricately expanding view of the world — of what encompasses reality. Studies have also found that people’s judgments of behaviour vary with their level of moral development, albeit the whole process may often be justified, or castigated, depending upon the ground swell of opinion vis-à-vis one’s conviction and mind-set. This is not all. From that vulnerable stage of adolescence to early childhood, and middle-age, most of us experience either a sense of satisfaction and self-worth, or utter despair that our life and, perhaps, career have been wasted.
So you may well ask: when does one mellow with age and belief?
Says Kiron B Shenoy, a senior corporate management professional, “You begin to assess life, not in terms of money, but life, or business success, also fulfilment, after age 40, or 50, although things have changed dramatically today. Either way, you suddenly put aside your ambitions, at some point, with regard to fame, glory, and fortune, as also commonplace business scandals that made front-page news, when you were going through the much-debated ‘mid-life’ crisis. This is a time — or, point of reference — that psychologists describe as being equivalent to generativity-versus-stagnation syndrome.”
This is a phase in life, no less, where people choose a career-course in tune with their original career plan. It is also a stage where some of them may decide to change, become better, and work towards excellence. What, of course, would be common to all, at this point, irrespective of one’s ‘game plan,’ is the means to an end — of a means adapted towards achieving a set, high-altitude, also high-attitude, target, or goal.
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