Sunday Firesides: Attention Adults — You Should Know What You're Doing

In discussions about getting older, people will sometimes say, "When you're young, you think adults have it together. But when you become an adult yourself, you realize grown-ups don't know what they're doing either!" This is shared as some kind of conspiratorial secret — a ubiquitous-yet-under-discussed truth.

Yet this "truth" is hardly universal. There…