Within a child’s agency, nothing is more universally determining of how they are becoming the adults they are becoming than the ongoing live flow of their learning. Consider the life-benefits of learning early in life that “I will become who I learn to become”.
From trillions of synapses to close to a million behaviors, from the content of thought to all ways of thinking, more than any other determinant everything humans know and believe is mostly determined by
Misattributing the effects of learning to other causes can have profound consequences, not just for individual understanding but also for how we approach learning as a society.
I understand that the way I talk about learning has the potential to contribute to existing misconceptions of learning and the acquisition of learned learning disabilities.
Could the universe be adapting to life as part of the same process through which life is adapting to the universe?
Look at the descriptions of each dimension. Each one depends on our learning. There may be aspects of each that are outside our agency, but within our agency, each one not only depends on our learning it is determined by our learning. This is what we need to learn. We are who we learn to […]
Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky just released a new book called: Determined A Science of Life Without Free Will How could a field-leading behavioral neuroscientist claim we have no free will? He’s not being tricky. He has scientifically arrived at the conclusion that what we commonly call free will is an illusion. You can get […]
Hold up a mirror and look carefully at your eyes.
In a recent poll, I asked: “Within their possible agency, what’s more important to children’s futures than how well they can learn?” I gave two quick-choice responses and invited comments: 1 – Some things are more important 2 – Nothing is more important Between LinkedIn and Facebook, the poll received around 10,000 impressions, but only […]
It’s Time to Awaken Your Learning Rewind your life twenty minutes or twenty years. Now ask yourself: “What’s the difference between my innermost me back then, and my innermost me now? What’s the difference in how I am who I am? What about ME has changed?” Now ask yourself: “Within what’s changed, what’s not a […]
