Why are there no classes about being an adult? I can head over to Coursera (I literally just signed up for a class!) and find a class about pretty much any academic subject. I can sit in on a whole semester of classes at Yale, but there is really no place for me to get insight into what it means to be a fully formed person and what that means to me and the other people in my life. Of course a class is not the best way to learn about being human (classes really aren't the best way to learn about pretty much anything), but the extensive resources available for improving leadership skills or broadening project management or some other business skill would make you think that programs in more mundane things would be available to people. You can always go to counseling, but they're always trying to figure out what's wrong with you so they can start to apply their standard treatment rubric rather than really listening to you and helping you figure out what baggage you're carrying around that stops you from doing what you want.
Sure, there are all kinds of self-help books out there, but a book is only as useful as the person reading the book is willing to be honest and actually confront things that aren't very flattering about the way they parent or deal with their spouse. There are lots of websites that will help you learn new habits or improve different aspects of your life. But where do we go when we're struggling with what makes us happy or how to feel more satisfied? Where do we go when we don't like the person we've become or can't figure out why we can't see all the good things that are already in our life? How do we learn to stop striving for more and realize that what we have is already wonderful?
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