Systematize Success #1 - Do You Still Laugh (and Learn) Enough?
If you are not laughing, or at the very least smiling, you are not learning.
Hi Friends,
Happy Monday!
Do You Still Laugh (and Learn) Enough?
The good thing with having a baby at home is that they laugh a lot.
Laughing is a reaction triggered by our mind reconciling two different truth that we had never consciously connected before. This is one of the most commonly agreed explanations by experts and/or comedians.
Babies tend to laugh a lot because they are experiencing so many of those new connections. To them, it happens from virtually every single aspects of reality.
Us adults find most of those basic. For example, we don't get the same kick from throwing food on the floor: we know how gravity works and where food will land. Plus we know we’ll have to clean up afterwards.
Those new connections are the archetype of learning by experiment. With reality as a feedback loop.
Adults tend to experiment much more with ideas and concepts than with physical reality, even though I am pretty sure most people would giggle if they suddenly discovered themselves a new physical ability.
But most people consider laughing as leisure only. An idea non grata in the professional or educational word.
For example, magic tricks are considered quite a low level of entertainment, even though they flag how incredibly formatted, rigid, and biased our adult perception of reality is.
My point is that if you are not laughing, or at the very least smiling, you are not learning.
It does not have to be loud and visible. It can be that little internal laugh or that little surprise. Understanding a new idea and thinking "wow, that's funny, I love that new connection" is probably one of the most exhilarating moment we can experience.
No surprise we find it funny when a monkey or a dog visibly experiences such moment: this is where we can relate the most. It makes them look human to us.
Anyway. Don't wait: look to be surprised and laugh.
Thanks for reading and have a great week, full of learning experiences,
V
Originally published in my other newsletter, Micromegas: Laughter as a Learning Symptom - Do you still Experience enough funny or surprising moments?