Stuck?  Try Things

By Shlomo Maital

    Have a problem?  Stuck?  No solution? 

    Try this – Return to childhood.  Copy the kids.

     Try things.  Try everything.

      Ever watch how kids learn?  They experiment. They try things.  New gadget?  They poke it, stroke it, shake it, swipe it, until it works.  Recall the famous ‘hole in the wall’ experiment, when Indian researchers put a tablet screen into a wall in a poor area of India, and kids learned to use it, and even hack it, to do things it had tried to prevent.

       Sometimes, the elderly seem technically challenged.  Part of the reason may not be technical skill, but hesitance to experiment.  If there is a ‘right way’,  and we don’t know it, then – dead end.  Right?

        Wrong!    Try things. 

        Try things is a good recipe for an interesting life.  Try different foods.  Try listening to different types of music.  Try reading different kinds of books.  Try things.  Mostly it will not work.  But once in a while – Jackpot!  

           Kids know it intuitively.  Let’s learn from them.