Oh crap, here I go again…
Whenever I feel something wrong, something bad happens followingly even I have a self-recognition of emotional behavior at a level that I describe as “not the best”. I am eagerly seeking a strange connection between my intuition and reality. How someone can predict bad results without fully understanding a whole process?
In the past years of my student life, various things have been running my routine without my consent. It seemed natural for me since I had been rushing through time from task to task. I was not fully conscious of all the things. However, I was the one who noticed first when the way to the goal deviates from its original route. It was so eccentric for someone like me to be aware of the environment in the hard hectic times.
One of the reasons for predicting a bad outcome is that it has happened to me before. I do exactly the same thing to people without knowing it more than once. Of course, it pokes my friends a lot. Haha. However, I hate making the same mistake twice. I know, babies have to try way more than twice to start walking.
Speaking of the first steps of babies, I want to run a thought experience. The main experiment character will be a one-year-old boy. Let there be a changeable floor for the first steps. Firstly, the floor will be regular wood, not too soft but not too hard. The baby will somehow learn to walk after a few tries. He will fall at any moment, but it will be an experience for him. Just like us, he is likely to learn.
In the second scenario, the floor will be bumpy and pointy steel floor. Even in the thought experiment, it is cruel to imagine that the boy will attend the first lesson there. It is easy to think that the child will be highly discouraged and afraid of giving a second chance to himself. It hardly matters how much motivation he has in the harsh environment. Because a second fall will cause him no less injury.
For the third imaginary experiment, I will choose a soft cotton-covered floor. I know for sure that the baby will love it very much. I will make it easier for the baby by putting some candies at the finish line and making the road plain. The obvious thing is that falling does not discourage the baby from starting again. However, I personally doubt if he ever tries to start walking. Walking, in this case, means leaving a comfort zone. It depends on his motivation, also known as whether candies outweigh the pleasure of lying on the super soft carpet.
For sure, there are several other internal and external factors I neglected in the experiment such as audience, support, and mood. The design of the experiment was not perfect for universal use, but just perfect for me to analyze the situation and past patterns of my life.
Here I can conclude that the exact proper environment would bring big opportunities to the table for trying again. Noting down and not ignoring the problem will serve for breaking the wrongdoing pattern. When noticing some little details, it is advised to zoom in and analyze them before it gets bigger. At last but not least, it is exciting that biomimicking our kids can be adapted to solve complicated problems.
