Do Whatever it Takes

To introduce this concept, let’s consider the most basic of examples.

Think about what a child goes through when learning to eat with a fork. The child has one main problem to solve: she is hungry. The usual manner in which she resolves her hunger is to eat with her hands. But she knows that while eating with her hands resolves her hunger issue, there is a secondary problem: when she eats with her hands, she ends up being messy. She doesn’t like it when she has to be cleaned up. She knows that her parents don’t eat with their hands - they use special tools.

Then one day, she is given one of these tools - a fork. She is also given the opportunity to use the fork all by herself, which is a new responsibility. In the past, someone else has always held the fork. This time, she has to try to use the fork for herself. She has seen her parents and siblings use a fork successfully before, and she wants to be more like them. She doesn’t...