Baby Steps

*/By Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc/*

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Normally when we talk about "baby-steps", we mean taking some incremental
steps or making small incremental changes.  I think we should think more
about how a baby learns to walk.

A baby learns to walk by getting up, falling down, adjusting, falling down,
trying something different, making a bit of progress, falling down, trying
something else again, falling down, etc. etc. etc.

A baby does not learn to walk by going to school for 28 years.  A baby does
not learn to walk by reading a book, or by studying a regulation.  A baby
does not learn to walk by following the best practices of others. 

By conventional thinking it is amazing that anyone ever learns to walk.


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