Children ought to do meaningful work. Adults ought to do their work like children.
However much work is right for a child is the right amount for an adult. That pace is the correct pace for an adult to remain a beginner in all things.
The way we understand how much is right for a child is the way to understand how much is right for an adult.
Remaining a beginner is the key to mastery. A beginner’s curiosity, willingness to learn, to yield, to be wrong.
A beginner’s attention to the basics. A beginner’s abandon with regard to what the body is about to do.
The master has a body disciplined to be faster and surer than their mind. The master has a mind disciplined to trust the body.
The child has all these things, innately. Their clumsy body is still yet surer than their smooth and supple brain. The body makes the mind what it is. With little else to go on, the child’s mind trusts *only* in the body.
The body is made of all the minds and bodies that ever have been.
Nature IS nurture, which is to say, that which is nurtured survives to seem innate, nature.
Observing our nature is the key that unlocks the way to an exquisitely curated reality. Understanding it is nurture reminds us that there MUST be a practical prosperity which provides for this.
When I see what my body wants, I create a reality in which the body gets what it wants. Observing this reality, I see what prosperity means for me.