last highlighted date: 2023-11-26
Highlights
- One of the reasons that careers are often unimportant to those with Peter Pan syndrome is that they can be genuinely uninterested in the usual trappings of “adult” success. According to practical psychology experts, Hack Spirit, “Men with Peter Pan syndrome are often immature and they don’t pay their bills.”
- People with Peter Pan syndrome rarely stick with anything for very long. If they do manage to find some career success, they tend to get bored with their job and decide they want to do something else, whatever the consequences.
- Cling to an unrealistic goal…without ever working towards it
- It’s not surprising that Peter Pans will often fear the future. Their inability to plan for it means that the future feels like a big unknown, with the inevitability of aging terrifying them. As they get older, Peter Pans will often think back with increasing nostalgia to a time when they were younger and, at least in their minds, happier.