Copying is a skill (micro blog)

I can’t stress this fact enough that 90% of all learning happens through immitation (copying others). When a child is born,he knows nothing. But after spending some good time with a family, he starts to make sounds and body movement which are meaningful.

If a child is left in isolation after birth, so as to prevent any “cheating” from others. Then it is pretty obvious that the child will not develop any of the physical and verbal skills at all.

It is always through copying from better individuals that a person has ever learnt anything new.

But copying is undermined as a way of learning in our education system. Not just undermined but almost made a crime.

I agree that they just want to know how much you can do after you’ve learnt how to do something. Meanwhile, no efforts, as such were made into telling children what all benefits immitation has in the real world.

Copying is important to be meaningfully influenced and inspired by someone. You should always to add your flavor to everything but if you know what works well there no wrong in trying to copy it.

Copying is the fundamental way homo sapiens learn. It should not be put into our children as something that’s bad. For it is one of the most effective and fastest way of learning.

Don’t be ashamed to copy something from someone better than you. But don’t forget to add your flavor to it because if you copy it as at ease that’s when the teacher (life) cuts marks.

Copying is a skill. A skill difficult to master but a skill worth learning.

-ChoubeySahab