confession #5

Domesticated human interaction.

There was a particular problem that I was facing: My baby girl was two months old, and she couldn't concentrate on what I was saying, doing or teaching; in other words, she wasn't domesticated.

My wife was telling me that I should give her time because she was very young and that I will soon come up with an idea and she won't be distracted again.

That was the core of my problem, deficiency of focus on me.

Thinking algorithmically about the problems I was facing, and about the possible solutions, this could help me see how good I was, and understand my failures. My baby girl needed to keep her mind focus on what I was doing, and ignoring all the other sights and textures that surround her to learn new things

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
— STEVE PAVLINA, AUTHOR OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PEOPLE AND BLOGGER AT STEVEPAVLINA.COM

During my years of working and reading, I've noticed that I need two things: A environment (jazz) music and my goal. These steps would be the series of actions to solve my problem.

Every time I played jazz music I needed to train her sight and focus span. I started moving my head side to side very slowly (because I noticed that she was not able to follow the speed pattern) and talking with my mouth open full.

I did these steps for about one month, and now she was naturally sociable, and she could interact by copying me better and learn more.

One night I could see that she tried to copy me when I was singing, but she got continuously frustrated. From that moment I knew that she did not know how to move her lips to talk.

I said Hello (like singing slowly), and then I moved her lower lips again and again. And voilà, she said hello in her words !!

When she received good eye contact, she began to accumulate more information about language watching my facial expression, gestures, and signs. It was the beginning of the social domesticated human interaction.

Whoever best describes the problem is the one most likely to solve it.
— DAN ROAM, AUTHOR OF THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN

17 May 2017