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when we think of the age of amazement we
often think of eras like the space race
or the Industrial Revolution but when I
think of amazement I think of how I felt
as a three-year-old looking at the world
when I was small I used to be obsessed
with spider-man one day a family friend
visited us in New York he offered me a
plastic spider-man glove when you
squeezed it
sylia secret spell just like
spider-man’s webbing I was so amazed
that I couldn’t control myself I sprayed
it all around our apartment our whole
apartment was covered in silly string I
was truly amazed it was new it was
surprising and yet it was simple when
you’re a kid you see and experience
everything for the first time between
three to nine everything seems bigger
and more amazing I specifically said
between three to nine because for three
years old you literally have no idea
what is going on in your life even
science proves it 90% of your brain
develops in your early years and before
that 90% development stage your
amazement seems to have a steady state
by the time I was nine ish it took me
more than a piece of string to amaze me
though this is the age when you start to
act all cool and sassy and pretend you
know everything and being amazed a shot
is right
it seems harder and harder to be amazing
the order we get even more so for our
generation virtual reality and drone
delivery seem to become normal and we
get bombarded by innovations at a higher
frequency and then we get used to it
this impacts our capacity to be amazed
the amazement starts fading now I
understand my grandma told my parents in
New York she said make sure he will
still be amazed after New York indeed I
lived eight years in New York and there
everything is amazing on Halloween
people would literally climber in their
house for say just up as spider-man on
Thanksgiving there would be a huge
Macy’s parade which I again take
character balloons each salad by
50 people and on New Year’s there would
be a big disco ball falling from a
building the amazement in the city that
never sleeps was non-stop then moved to
Berkeley my family and I were clearly
not amazed at first the Christmas light
show at the Oakland Zoo felt like a
parody of rock flower centers and San
Francisco skyline was like a Lego
version of New York’s these two examples
help me understand my grandma said by oh
make sure he will so be amazed after New
York comparison is the enemy of
amazement I knew that I needed to find a
way to be amazed again first because of
Rick Hansen Rick Hansen is an American
psychologist senior fellow of the
greater good science center at UC
Berkeley his study shows that your brain
remembers the negative extreme
experiences better and faster than the
positive ones he said that you need to
fill your positive remember you take as
much as you can to improve yourself in a
positive way
second because of Albert Einstein to
paraphrase he said a man who is not
capable of amazement has almost ceased
to live so with the developed brain and
in our fast-paced and entertaining
society how to continue to be amazed how
to achieve this it’s easy just compare
less don’t pretend you know at all try
and learn new things and just be open
there’s the same quantity of wonder
around the world and around the corner
in conclusion there is an age where
amazing it is like breathing that’s one
where infants as we grow we seem to lose
our amazement ability but the ability to
stay amazed is one of the secrets to
life it’s the difference between to be
alive and to fully live a life so we
need to let her inner child resurface
and express himself we are surrounded by
reasons to be amazed so let’s fill our
tank and continue to embrace the journey of life thank you
when we think of the age of amazement we
often think of eras like the space race
or the Industrial Revolution but when I
think of amazement I think of how I felt
as a three-year-old looking at the world
when I was small I used to be obsessed
with spider-man one day a family friend
visited us in New York he offered me a
plastic spider-man glove when you
squeezed it
sylia secret spell just like
spider-man’s webbing I was so amazed
that I couldn’t control myself I sprayed
it all around our apartment our whole
apartment was covered in silly string I
was truly amazed it was new it was
surprising and yet it was simple when
you’re a kid you see and experience
everything for the first time between
three to nine everything seems bigger
and more amazing I specifically said
between three to nine because for three
years old you literally have no idea
what is going on in your life even
science proves it 90% of your brain
develops in your early years and before
that 90% development stage your
amazement seems to have a steady state
by the time I was nine ish it took me
more than a piece of string to amaze me
though this is the age when you start to
act all cool and sassy and pretend you
know everything and being amazed a shot
is right
it seems harder and harder to be amazing
the order we get even more so for our
generation virtual reality and drone
delivery seem to become normal and we
get bombarded by innovations at a higher
frequency and then we get used to it
this impacts our capacity to be amazed
the amazement starts fading now I
understand my grandma told my parents in
New York she said make sure he will
still be amazed after New York indeed I
lived eight years in New York and there
everything is amazing on Halloween
people would literally climber in their
house for say just up as spider-man on
Thanksgiving there would be a huge
Macy’s parade which I again take
character balloons each salad by
50 people and on New Year’s there would
be a big disco ball falling from a
building the amazement in the city that
never sleeps was non-stop then moved to
Berkeley my family and I were clearly
not amazed at first the Christmas light
show at the Oakland Zoo felt like a
parody of rock flower centers and San
Francisco skyline was like a Lego
version of New York’s these two examples
help me understand my grandma said by oh
make sure he will so be amazed after New
York comparison is the enemy of
amazement I knew that I needed to find a
way to be amazed again first because of
Rick Hansen Rick Hansen is an American
psychologist senior fellow of the
greater good science center at UC
Berkeley his study shows that your brain
remembers the negative extreme
experiences better and faster than the
positive ones he said that you need to
fill your positive remember you take as
much as you can to improve yourself in a
positive way
second because of Albert Einstein to
paraphrase he said a man who is not
capable of amazement has almost ceased
to live so with the developed brain and
in our fast-paced and entertaining
society how to continue to be amazed how
to achieve this it’s easy just compare
less don’t pretend you know at all try
and learn new things and just be open
there’s the same quantity of wonder
around the world and around the corner
in conclusion there is an age where
amazing it is like breathing that’s one
where infants as we grow we seem to lose
our amazement ability but the ability to
stay amazed is one of the secrets to
life it’s the difference between to be
alive and to fully live a life so we
need to let her inner child resurface
and express himself we are surrounded by
reasons to be amazed so let’s fill our
tank and continue to embrace the journey of life thank you
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