As adults, we have the advantage of knowledge and experience that children do not possess. We have the benefit of living longer and having the opportunity to learn from our mistakes. We can pursue a greater understanding of the world and its complexities, allowing us to think more deeply and critically about our decisions. Furthermore, adults have the advantage of being able to apply our understanding of the world to real-life situations, allowing us to think more strategically and make more informed decisions.

With all of the advantages adults possess, it stands to reason that adults should be exponentially smarter than toddlers in the same ways that toddlers are smarter than adults. We should be able to think more deeply, recognize patterns more quickly, and apply our understanding of the world to real-life problems with greater accuracy. We should be able to use our critical thinking skills to solve complex problems and make sound decisions. Our cognitive flexibility should be greater than that of a toddler, allowing us to adjust to new situations more quickly and accurately. Our memory should be more sharp and reliable, allowing us to remember more information and recall it more accurately. We should also be able to identify technologies and use them more effectively, utilizing our greater understanding of the world to our advantage. 

In short, adults should be exponentially smarter than toddlers in the same ways that toddlers’ brains are smarter than adults. With all of the advantages adults possess, we should be able to think more deeply, recognize patterns more quickly, apply our understanding of the world to real-life problems with greater accuracy, and use our critical thinking skills to solve complex problems and make sound decisions.

Unfortunately, as we grow older, we start to absorb the limiting, non-integrative mindset that we observe in the adult world. This mindset, often referred to as the bicameral mentality, acts like a harmful computer virus that infiltrates our thought processes and erodes our ability to create, innovate, and integrate knowledge. As we absorb this mindset, we lose our natural ability to progress, to break through barriers, and to explore new territories in life. In essence, we lose our human potential and the deep motivation that once drove us to learn and grow.

If toddlers’ motivational drives and their energy/emotional levels continued beyond six or seven years of age, conceptual thinking and then puzzle-building integrated thinking would have taken over. But you can listen to almost any conversation today and, in most cases, a story is being told, percept by percept. Very few conversations occur at the conceptual level and virtually none at the puzzle-building level. The bicameral-like mode of just reacting to external stimuli, instead of controlling the world around us, dominates human “thinking”.

Without conceptualizing, ordinary people are powerless in life and helpless in their careers, forever stuck in percepts — in routine tasks at work that control them, for instance. People can only react to those tasks, forever trapped in routine ruts, unable to structure those simple tasks into more powerful conceptual units to control their destinies.

This resignation further diminishes our potential to grow and evolve, as our motivation to take risks and explore new opportunities is reduced. Our ability to think critically and creatively is diminished, as we become more and more passive in our approach to life. We may not even realize it, but we are slowly losing our capacity to think deeply, to explore the unknown, and to find innovative solutions to life’s problems. 

In today’s anticivilization, upon entering first grade at six years of age, the motivational drive still in the child is gradually lost. You see, the premise of public schools today is: Prepare children to effectively integrate into society. Now, imagine that the eager child dreams about growing up and becoming a famous person who does wonderful things…a great value creator. “I’ll do great things for the world and become a millionaire!” But those dreams gradually dissipate as the child blends into the suppressed anticivilization.

Our minds become dull, and our capacity for learning and growth is drastically reduced. We become stuck in a cycle of comfort and complacency, unable to break free from the grip of the mundane and the expected. We lose our ability to recognize patterns and to think outside of the box, and our minds become increasingly limited in their ability to challenge the status quo and create something new. We become less and less intelligent, and our potential for success and fulfillment in life is diminished.In addition to losing our own potential, us adults also begin to adopt a sense of resignation from the world around us. First, your potential, your deep-rooted motivational drive, is gone. Each day proves that. For, if you still had the deep-rooted motivational drive that you did as a very young child, you would spend energy learning and absorbing knowledge toward your success every day. And you would love it. Energized by financial rewards, your evenings would be filled with thinking about your value creation. Very few adults today ever have the opportunity to exist in that exhilarated mode. This resignation dims our once-bright enthusiasm for life, as we accept the limitations imposed on us by society, our own self-doubt, and the beliefs of others. The joy and happiness we experienced as young children are replaced by the burdens of adult life, trapping our minds and hearts in a cycle of stagnation and disappointment. However, with the right strategies which will be shown to you, we can harness your child’s deep-rooted motivational drive and accelerate it.