Lessons From a 4-year Old
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October 4th, 2006
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Do you believe you have to teach your child everything about life? Wrong. Turns out a 4-year old has plenty of stuff to teach us adults. Check out the post by Steve Olson, titled "What I Learned From My 4-Year Old Son". There is plenty of advice which applies to us grownups as well. Steve put together a short list with some highlights. A couple of my favorites are:
To look for opportunity everywhere
My son views the entire world and every new person, new object, or new event as an opportunity to learn something. When a new person walks in the room he wants to know who they are and if they would like to play. If I drop a new object into a cluttered room, he will spot it, touch it, pick it up, ask questions about it. Nothing new goes unnoticed.
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To accept mistakes
Watching my son grow and learn, it became clear that all learning is based on trying something new, making a mistake, adjusting your actions, trying again, repeating until you get the results you desire. That is how he learned to walk, speak, read, write, build lego walls, set up train tracks, jump, run, and pedal. I can’t think of one thing he did right the first time. It is a good thing he has an abundance of sha-hand-show-bo.
Go check out his list and also some of his other posts. The site reminds me a little bit of Steve Pavlina and his site about personal development for smart people.
I saw Steve’s post (my comment was the one before yours!) - what good points, although I was pissed off that the commenters took it on such a weird tangent.
Needless to say, I’ve added Steve (Olsen’s) blog to my Bloglines list, and I’m a big fan of Mr. Pavlina too. You?