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5 valuable productivity lessons that preschoolers can teach you
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Welcome help
We’re all aware that asking for help is important. But we’re also very likely to cast off what we’d consider unsolicited advice.
Think of a child looking for a lost toy. You might not even know where it is, but you can scaffold their search: Have you tried looking under the couch? What if it’s in another room? Real learning happens in this zone.
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Channel your inner learner
Children instinctively pursue knowledge by actively moving around their environments, observing what’s going on around them, and taking mental notes about what they experience.
By assuming that there’s always more to learn, we can follow the childlike drive to develop new ideas about familiar things.
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Spend time exploring
It’s both natural and useful to take time to explore a task before committing to one path forward.
While children tend to do this automatically, adults may need to plan ahead for their exploratory time. Explore: consider multiple solutions, ask questions that may seem tangential, and be open to discovering unexpected ways to tackle the project.
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Give yourself a blank slate
Adults generally do a great job of applying past knowledge to new situations. Children’s brains thrive instead in unfamiliar contexts, in part because more contexts are unfamiliar to them.
So the next time you’re tasked with a completely new project, don’t force your prior knowledge onto it.
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Bring pretend into the workplace
Children not only find unusual uses of existing objects, but they even invent new objects and ideas through imaginative play.
And it makes children more productive in their play by allowing them to achieve the goals of their game without the restrictions of the limited resources at their disposal.
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Baby advice industry
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The two camps of parenting advice
- Baby Trainers urge parents to get their newborn on to a strict schedule to integrate him into the rhythms of the household.
- Natural Parents emulate the earthy practices of indigenous tribes in the developing world.
Nobody really knows
- For a start, nobody can remember what it was like to be a baby.
- Most parenting gurus only have direct experience of parenting two or three babies, which isn't much better as a sample size. They can't assume that whatever worked for them will work for everyone.
- When you have read all the parenting books, your baby will possibly follow an entirely different manual of instructions.
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Theory of mind
This is a social-cognitive skill that relates to the ability to think about your own mental state and the mental states of other people.
It's called a theory because what we believe is go...
Benefits of the theory of the mind
In our daily interactions with other people, it is important to be able to understand their mental states and to think about how those mental states might influence their actions.
The theory of the mind helps us understand how people think, predict their behavior and solve interpersonal conflicts.
Stages of the Theory of mind
- The understanding that the reasons why people might want something may differ from one person to the next.
- The understanding that people can have different beliefs about the same thing or situation.
- The understanding that people may not comprehend or have the knowledge that something is true.
- The understanding that people can hold false beliefs about the world.
- The understanding that people can have hidden emotions, or that they may act one way while feeling another way.