Adulthood and how it shackles our learning
They roll out of the bed, try to stand up, and fall and this process is repeated tirelessly day after day.
There is no manual for learning or making sense of all the stimuli they get from their environment.
Babies try new things all the time, they keep what works and discard what doesn't.
This learning process is playful, smooth and frictionless. They never question anything, there is no internal battle, no resistence, which greatly accelerates the learning process.
Society developed rigid processes and substituted the jovial way of learning with a more stern, methodical one.
As we grow older, reward and punishment is introduced into our lives as a mean to encourage or deter.
We lose our casual ways and we start having expectations.
We get invested in the results of our efforts, and we forget about the joy we get from each step that we take towards achieving our goals.
These systemized systems are the result of the laudable effort of people wanting to dissect skills, and turn them into organized structures that could be taught to everyone.
The main disadvantage of this method is that it strips learning from its very essence, injecting competition instead of cooperation, favoring goal-oriented and stress producing approaches instead of process-oriented and carefree methods.
There is no manual for learning or making sense of all the stimuli they get from their environment.
Babies try new things all the time, they keep what works and discard what doesn't.
This learning process is playful, smooth and frictionless. They never question anything, there is no internal battle, no resistence, which greatly accelerates the learning process.
Society developed rigid processes and substituted the jovial way of learning with a more stern, methodical one.
As we grow older, reward and punishment is introduced into our lives as a mean to encourage or deter.
We lose our casual ways and we start having expectations.
We get invested in the results of our efforts, and we forget about the joy we get from each step that we take towards achieving our goals.
These systemized systems are the result of the laudable effort of people wanting to dissect skills, and turn them into organized structures that could be taught to everyone.
The main disadvantage of this method is that it strips learning from its very essence, injecting competition instead of cooperation, favoring goal-oriented and stress producing approaches instead of process-oriented and carefree methods.
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