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 ont...

Appropriation can have two meanings:

• the usage of existing objects to create different contexts than originally thought (e.g. dressing in clothes from another culture)
• the usage of a product in an unintended way  (e.g. using a block of cement instead of a hammer with a nail). ...

Skills and knowledge transfer far less than we would expect them to. So “broad-based” education is mostly a myth. What we learn is usually specific and often stuck to the contexts where it was learned.