First, You've Got To Learn How To Walk

Imagine what it would have been like, for you as a baby on all fours, seeing this concept of adults who walk around, effortlessly on those two things we call legs. They just seem to do it without thought, and motion gently from one side of the room to the other. Whereas for you, lower down on the ground, where everything seems up close and personal, crawling in itself is intimidating, as objects around you seem to come at you with great speed, and intimidating at that. Knowing what you know today then, would it have been easier to get up and walk, or would you have been more hesitant?

That's the decision we face daily. It's a metaphorical, "crawl or walk"? We know what we're capable of, we know what we can do, but if we have never done it before, the thought of learning is reason enough not to start. More and more than we fear we will fail, dwarfing the thought of how we would feel should we succeed. Imagine if a as a baby you thought the way you think today? You would not have taken that first step! You would not have learnt how to walk. Do you regret having made the decision to get off your hands and knees, and learning how to walk?

So why deny yourself opportunities today? Opportunities to learn something new. Why close your mind out to the other possibilities out there? I don't have the answer for that, but it does intrigue me how as people get older, they become less and less open minded. He light at the end if the tunnel is constnatky perceived to be the train, and not a point where there is clarity.

It's almost as if there is a switch that gets flicked at a certain achievement level, be it academic or rank and file in an organisation, and people stop learning. Stop learming not because of no new material coming before them, but purely because the material that comes before them does not agree with what they have learnt to date.

A baby crawling, is mobile, and you could probably get through life on all fours. I imagine it would be difficult, as compared to someone walking upright, but I don't think it would be impossible. Me personally, I would choose the tar road over a gravel road if given the choice. The trick is, you've got to tar the road, it doesn't come like that naturally.