Figure out Your Boundary
byXIAOLAIon2012/02/20·7 COMMENTS
Most babies take their first steps sometime between 9 and 12 months. Human babies take much longer to learn to walk than other mammals do. A rat needs only a couple of minutes to start walking, and a pony needs only several hours. Psychologists believe this is related to brain. Human babies have a relatively larger brain size so that the brain requires more time to develop.
It’s an evolutionary trick: while the brain of a human baby is still developing, being unable to walk is functioning as a mechanism of protection. It sets the boundary of babies, keeping them within a “safe zone”. And this is why the sale of baby walkers was banned on April 7, 2004[1].
Likewise, an adult also has his own boundary, within which he is free and safe. Authors of self-help books may have it right that being limited within a boundary is likely to keep one from achieving greatness, but they also fail to warn the readers of dangers being outside of one’s boundary. In fact, to figure out one own boundary, a simple list of questions is enough:
- Is this what I truly want?
- Am I independently capable of doing this?
- What’s the danger? Can I survive the possible danger?
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