"So, parents, parents-to-be, and non-parents of all ages, I have a message for you: **Before hard work comes play. Before those who’ve yet to fix on a passion are ready to spend hours a day diligently honing skills, they must goof around, triggering and retriggering interest**. Of course, developing an interest requires time and energy, and yes, some discipline and sacrifice. But at this earliest stage, novices aren’t obsessed with getting better. They’re not thinking years and years into the future. They don’t know what their top-level, life-orienting goal will be. More than anything else, they’re having fun. "In other words, **even the most accomplished of experts start out as unserious beginners**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[curiosity]], [[consistency]], [[failure]], [[commitment-bias]], [[sunk-cost-fallacy]], [[slowing-down-not-stopping]], [[parenting]] **Source** -- [[20241030 - B - Grit]]