Do you remember being a child, when so much was new? As a child,
faced with new experiences throughout your day, you were much
more likely to notice detail and richness in ordinary
experiences. A child can spend hours splashing in the water in a
sink. This is because the child approaches the water coming from
the faucet as a beginner. The water is interesting and
miraculous. In this case, the child doesn’t approach the water
as if it already knows everything interesting about it. It
approaches the water as a beginner, as if there is so much to
discover. As we age and gain experience, we so often lose our
sense of wonder at how the world operates and in losing our
wonder, we lose our ability to see the richness of any ordinary
situation. Try This: Beginners Mind - Cultivate your beginners
mind as a daily life experiment. Try to approach a problem at
work with fresh eyes. Imagine you’d never encountered this
problem before and explore it in all its detail. - Do the same
with daily experiences, such as dinner-ti