Children fear what they don't know, adults fear what they do know. Our experience of the world makes us build structures of safety (behaviours) that put ever stricter limits on the way we are prepared to relate to the world in order to avoid the harm, hurt and humiliation that we have already suffered in the past. Such behaviours narrow our options, diminish our personalities and reduce our ability to venture into the unknown.

In more primitive circumstances, such 'learning from hard experience' behaviour is vital to survival but for us, where literal survival is less of a day to day priority, it can lead to discontent, intransigence and lack of progress. We must look again at a child's mindset to reconnect us with our own potential, with our freedom of spirit and with true empowerment. By rewinding to a time when potential was everything, we can remind ourselves of what we set out to achieve in the first place and consider the possibility that it's never too late to change.