Ninety-nine percent of the human genome is identical for all humans. The remaining 0.01% contains the genetic variation that create the individual differences among humans.

-de moor, marleen h.m.¹

Why do so many preteens or teenagers dread entering adulthood?

Here’s what I observe:

Many miserable adults surround them.

So, can we blame them?

I believe it’s possible for kids to look forward to becoming an adult.

Don’t believe me?

What if they gained the knowledge of this variance that makes up their distinct personality? What if they could know how to understand and live with their Self, understand others, and prepare for a future with an enjoyable vocation and purpose in their world?

Parents and guardians, teachers and counsellors, this is knowledge I wish I’d had before I chose my first job and those thereafter!

Who has experienced being in a job that doesn’t fit one’s personality, that results in working in misery?

So I became an investigative journalist to answer the question:

Where does our personality live inside our bodies?

In my investigation, so far, I find that gestation does not install the personality into the baby. Mother passes it on.

Selah.

So, does the baby come out a clone of the mother?

No. Of course not.

There’s a variance.

Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud were rivals. Madeleine L’Engle, the author of A Wrinkle in Time, said

Jung disagreed with Freud that the decisive period in our lives is the first years. Instead, Jung felt that the decisive period is … the middle years … All the protective covering of the first three stages is gone, and we are suddenly alone with ourselves²

Often then, the middle-aged adult asks,

Who am I?

If the young do not find this knowledge, the question will come back around. Because the soul demands understanding.

This informative school talk is my answer to this problem. I will give students a scientific reason to look forward to their adulthood.

They hold purpose; alongside getting an education, getting a job, loving their parents and later a mate and children. We were all created to contribute great and beautiful things to our world.

So, where does this variance come from? When does it happen? What does it do?

Stay tuned, and I’ll tell you.

Curriculum will be ready for Fall 2026.

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¹de Moor, Marleen H.M.< Handbook of personality : theory and research / edited by Oliver P. John, Richard W. Robins. Fourth edition. New York, NY : The Guilford Press, [2021], p.244.

²L’Engle, Madeleine, A circle of quiet : the Crosswicks journals. New York, NY : Open Road Media, 2020, p. 112.