Want to Increase Your Chances of Success? “Do It Happy!”
A mindset technique used by my 10-year-old
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
We have as much to teach children as we have to learn from them. This becomes more evident the more time we spend with them.
As the father of a 10-year-old, I have plenty of examples of this. Recently I was scolding him for being up past midnight. Even though we were on vacation, we had plans to go for a hike the next morning and I knew he would be too tired and sleepy to get up.
But then he said, “You know, if we sleep happy, we don’t need to sleep as much.”
I didn’t have any comeback, so I left his room smiling and kind of proud of his argument.
But the phrase kept echoing in my mind, not so much for its particular meaning, but because it was yet another example of what a child can understand about the world when their mind isn’t yet overly molded by adults.
There’s a magical innocence, free of filters, that allows them to see what we can no longer see. It’s their perception of life, and it’s different from ours. Well, it’s different from…
