“But being uninhibited may help babies and young children to explore freely. There is a trade-off between the ability to explore creatively and learn flexibly, like a child, and the ability to plan and act effectively, like an adult. The very qualities needed to act efficiently—such as swift automatic processing and a highly pruned brain network—may be intrinsically antithetical to the qualities that are useful for learning, such as flexibility.”
Gopnik, A. (July 2010). How babies think. Scientific American, 303(1), 76-81.
As adults, we get things done, but we stop learning new things and so the things we get done are the same old things. Discuss.
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