Arguably the most natural and powerful form of learning is through experience, or more precisely through reflection on doing.
Also called experiential learning, it's what prima ballerinas do after their performance at the national opera.
But it also happens to boys that are sad because their father got angry when they played football in the living room.
By the age of one, we all had our own painful encounter with experiential learning when we tried to walk, failed, fell, and cried like, well a baby…
And even though this was an unpleasant and discouraging exercise that lasted for months in the end we all made it.
How is that possible?
As soon as we fell and the first shock was over, our brain unconsciously began to make sense out of all of the information available to identify how this embarrassment occurred.
It remembers that when we pushed ourselves up, everything was fine:
Our feet on the floor, our arms in position, and our head and shoulders upright.
Ready to go!
