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The person does not know how to learn in the beginning; it knows how to absorb, which means it learns whatever it absorbs from its surroundings. I am talking about when you were a kid.
Because the person learns by absorption, the parents and surroundings become the other teachers.
ability of ‘how to think’, one naturally falls back on what one knows—which strengthens these ‘factual’ learnings even more, so much so that at a certain age, they can become unchangeable ideas, biases, prejudices and practices that the individual can no longer abandon.
A person brought up on what to think inclines towards asking for solutions for their problems, instead of thinking and finding out things by themselves.
insatiable
People have babies so the baby can grow up to fulfil the unfulfilled dreams of either of the parents.
We are creating a human—are we mentally fit and prepared to create a person for whom we will be solely responsible? If not, shall we now start to upgrade our thoughts, perceptions, perspectives, create multiple storages of knowledge—which in time will cater to the young person’s curiosities and impact the overall development of its personality?
Your parents wanted to prepare you to be one of the best products for this world. In action, what they end up doing is: prepare you technically, academically and skill-wise to be the best product for the race, like a car. The human element is barely accounted for.
Learning of any kind that involves zero investment of your thinking produces only imitation.
To create ideas and better yourself, you have to take the information and apply your own mind.
In playing this character, the kid becomes a reflection of their ego.
The moment a kid touches the age of thirteen, parents should break out of their stupid characters and start looking at their kid as an inexperienced adult. What it means is, they are now thinking of doing everything that adults do.
The point of having a brain should be to minimise error, not having to deal with it endlessly.
As a result, you’re a grown person now, on your own, having to deal with the world telling you your self-worth and net worth; adjusting your self-esteem as you make sense of rejections from people you desire; filling yourself with insecurities and ideas from comparing yourself to god-knows-what standards; and lastly, triggering negative emotions as a response to failures, heartbreaks and denial of wishes.
