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The unusually long period for which children are dependent on adults is a clue that humans are designed to learn from others, rather than just through their own explorations.
Ian Leslie • Curious
most parents don’t want to hear about philosophical prescriptions for a fulfilling life—at least, not until their child has been admitted to Stanford.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
Studying babies makes us realize that the biological computers on this planet differ from the man-made computers in this regard, as well. They don’t just compute, learn, reason, and know. They are driven to do all these things and are designed to take intense pleasure in doing so.
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
What do little girls want to become?
Michael Schrage • Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?
“Childhood gives you a period in which you can just explore possibilities,
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
at the end of the day, it’s the child’s experience that really matters.
Angela Duckworth • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The second discovery of psychologists (including the Nobel Prize-winning Daniel Kahneman) is that people are often surprisingly bad judges of what will make them happy.14
Derek Bok • The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
Trying to understand human nature is part of human nature. Developmental scientists are themselves engaged in the same enterprise and use the same cognitive tools as the babies they study. The scientist peering into the crib, looking for answers to some of the deepest questions about how minds and the world and language work, sees the scientist pee
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