I have two nephews. The younger one is 9 years old. This happened around 2 years back.
So, I was accompanying him to his tuition. We were walking. On the way, 3 equal-sized kid-size black school shoes were kept outside a house. I saw the shoes and realized it was a pair of shoes and one extra shoe belonging to some kid. My nephew saw the shoes and kept looking at them for some time. He thought for some time and asked me, “Chachu, kisi bachche ke teen paer bhi hote hain?” (”Uncle, are there any kids with three feet?”). I was amused at this and answered his question.
But I was pleasantly surprised that kids have pure out-of-the-box thinking because they have not formed their box yet. They have not constrained themselves with facts, opinions, and beliefs - true or false. They have a lot more possibilities in their heads than adults. This helps adults to reason about things better as we keep building higher and higher abstractions, which are like black boxes we do not need to look into. But it also confines us in those boxes and hinders first-principles thinking.
Dec 3, 2022
Bangalore
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