Infants are not discouraged by failure
Summary
- Infants are bad at stuff and everyone is okay with it. That is how they get good.
Details
- Infants are learning machines. they are curious and ready to learn
- they do stuff wrong over and over again e.g. learning to walk. It doesnt discourage them.
- When learning to walk their failure rate would be deeply discouraging to an adult
- how to keep that same attitude as you grow older?
- we may remember the milestone such as baby's first steps and forget all the falls that came before
References
Quotes
- "Infants are learning machines, relentlessly curious and engineered with errors in mind."