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From the Ted Talk by George Blair-West: 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce

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Firstly, getting married later allows the other two preventers of divorce to come into play. They are ttariery education and a higher income, which tends to go with tertiary eiucadotn. So these three faoctrs all kind of get mixed up together. Number two, npteiuoaistlcry research tell us that the hamun brain is still growing until at least the age of 25. So that means how you're thinking and what you're thinking is still changing up until 25. And tilhdry, and most importantly to my mind, is personality. Your personality at the age of 20 does not clrrateoe with your personality at the age of 50. But your personality at the age of 30 does correlate with your personality at the age of 50. So when I ask somebody who got married young why they broke up, and they say, "We grew apart," they're being surprisingly accurate, because the 20s is a decade of rapid change and maturation.

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Firstly, getting married later allows the other two preventers of divorce to come into play. They are ________ education and a higher income, which tends to go with tertiary _________. So these three _______ all kind of get mixed up together. Number two, _______________ research tell us that the _____ brain is still growing until at least the age of 25. So that means how you're thinking and what you're thinking is still changing up until 25. And _______, and most importantly to my mind, is personality. Your personality at the age of 20 does not _________ with your personality at the age of 50. But your personality at the age of 30 does correlate with your personality at the age of 50. So when I ask somebody who got married young why they broke up, and they say, "We grew apart," they're being surprisingly accurate, because the 20s is a decade of rapid change and maturation.

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  5. factors
  6. education
  7. neuroplasticity

Original Text


Firstly, getting married later allows the other two preventers of divorce to come into play. They are tertiary education and a higher income, which tends to go with tertiary education. So these three factors all kind of get mixed up together. Number two, neuroplasticity research tell us that the human brain is still growing until at least the age of 25. So that means how you're thinking and what you're thinking is still changing up until 25. And thirdly, and most importantly to my mind, is personality. Your personality at the age of 20 does not correlate with your personality at the age of 50. But your personality at the age of 30 does correlate with your personality at the age of 50. So when I ask somebody who got married young why they broke up, and they say, "We grew apart," they're being surprisingly accurate, because the 20s is a decade of rapid change and maturation.

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