Why Do Children Adapt to Changes More Quickly Than Adults?

Indeed, children are much more inclined toward adapting to changes than adults. Adults have already settled into their ways. They believe things cannot change or improve and resign themselves to accepting life as it is.

Children, however, still hold on to hope. They have not been dulled by life’s disappointments in the same way adults have. Ideally, with life experience, we should grow wiser and more patient, more determined to make corrections.

But the truth is, we don’t. Why not? It is because we lack the patience, determination, and strength to resist the inertia of what is. Instead, we accept things as they are, largely because of the blows we have endured. These setbacks make us too lazy and weary to correct ourselves.

Yet, the path of correction remains open to anyone willing to embrace it. By embracing the path of correction, i.e., correcting our inborn self-centered desires with an additional intention to give, love, and positively connect to others, we gain the ability to quickly adapt to changes at any given age. It is because we then learn how nature’s laws operate on us and how we should optimally respond to nature’s impulses at every given moment.