Learn Like a Baby

We live in a day and age where we as human beings try to find out how we can maximize our learning capabilities in order to stay relevant on the market. At this very moment, there are thousands of ambitious minds surfing the web trying to find information on how to learn effectively.

The irony of this is that learning is what we have been doing since we were babies. From the moment that we were born, we unconsciously started a life-long process of learning.

Even though babies are blank sheets of paper waiting to be filled with information, they still offer us a lesson in the purest forms of learning. Let us take a look at what we have to learn from them:

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“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.” – Bill Cosby

Watching is inevitable to learning. Seeing someone doing something, and then redoing it, is as old of a form of learning as the dawn itself. When you see a baby looking intensely at something it hasn’t seen before, you can see the focus and effort put in to trying to understand it and observe its behavior. With time the baby will start putting into practice what it has seen. How do you think the evil eye baby learned to give that look?