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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Make a children’s book about practicing skills and getting better at them.
I helped a friend’s six year old daughter learn that by having her make the same paper airplane repeatedly until she mastered it.
Apparently nobody in school had yet taught her that one’s level of skill is not a fixed thing. Before that thing with the paper airplanes whenever she’d try something new she’d see her first failure and then exclaim “oh, I can’t do this!” and then give up.
Honestly nobody taught me about practice making skills better in school either. Not sure why such a fundamental part of using one’s brain is neglected in our schools but it is.
That's a very good point. I'm hopeless at practicing. I've got ADHD, so find it hard to do something that I don't want to do at the moment, and when I was younger I could pick up new skills fairly easily, so never bothered learning properly. I would do as much as it took to be ok at something, then usually stop there.