You can learn a lot from a baby. Seriously. A baby will practice over 10,000 times to perfect a skill. That’s why they repeat the same exercise over and over again. They are skill-building experts.
Every morning they wake (EARLY) rearing to go practice. My 14 month old has learned to open the child proof safety latches on our cupboards. Thankfully he has also learned to listen to mom on which cabinets are his to open.
Did you know that your brain is wired for practice? I recently watched a talk on Neural Pathways. Every time you practice a skill your neural pathways become more efficient at sending those signals to the parts of your body that allow you to do that specific skill.
How exactly? It is similar to when insulation is bound around cables wires. The thicker the insulation the less likely the signal is likely to be lost.
When you practice a skill such as music, singing, dancing, language, etc the insulation around those associated wires in your brain become thicker thus allowing you to master a skill over time with ease.
Have you ever seen a painter, pianist, dancer, orator, etc and said ‘They make it look so easy.’ That is the result of years and years of fortifying those neural pathways that give them that fluid skill.
Science is revealing the magnificence of creation on a scale never seen before. Yet King David in the Bible said ‘I am fearfully and wonderfully made.’ Psalm 139:14 and he didn’t even have a microscope!
So now it is your turn to put that ‘baby fortitude’ to work and make something ‘look’ easy for the benefit of others.
