Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say

Re:Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Sta... by darkerside on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:36AM (#17430472)

Funny, I feel like before 12 is when our brains are free of social constraints and are most free to determine what is enjoyable or not. 5 year olds certainly know what they like.

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Re:Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Sta... by watwut on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:02PM (#17431593)

5 years old largely follow herd - thing becomes interesting the moment multiple other kids have it and cease to he interesting when other kids change interest.

They will start like things because admired adult claims to like them, they will start to hate food because adult or other kids said it is disgusting. If you praise kid during activity, they are significantly more likely to seek that activity later and if you yell at them they will hate the activity itself. Adults are much better at sorting these influences out.

You can easily manipulate pre schoolers to dislike things and while it is a bit harder to make them like things, it is still relatively easy.

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Re:Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Sta... by sidr on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:24PM (#17431400)

And they're virtually guaranteed to grow out of liking those things by next month.

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