What A Two-Year-Old Taught Me About Learning

It was the most important lesson for me this year

Banji Alo
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2 min readNov 9, 2022

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

― Henry Ford

A two-year-old taught me the most important lesson in 2022.

It was about learning and mastering a new habit.

You wouldn’t believe it.

Here’s how it all went:

Every night we have to get this two-year-old to bed.

You probably know how hard it is to achieve this.

In the early days, he didn’t want to go to sleep.

He just wanted to play around some more.

Then we would turn the light off as a signal.

C’mon kiddo! It’s bedtime.

He wouldn’t budge.

It was challenging.

“You don’t learn to…

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Banji Alo
ILLUMINATION

Data Scientist • Career Advisor • Author • FREE Data Career Welcome Kit — https://start.banjialo.com