How to Evaluate Your Formative Influences
When we were kids, my older brother had a sure-fire method for solving the Rubik’s Cube. The method was to break it apart and then put it back together. Solved!
A few years ago, I decided to teach myself how to actually solve the Rubik’s Cube. There is a method that involves starting with the cube held in a certain position then following a defined set of steps that results in a fully solved cube every time, if you can remember all of the steps. I worked at it, practiced every day, and in time I proved that I could learn all of the steps and solve the Rubik’s Cube on my own.
Then I stopped practicing every day, and proved that I could also forget all of the steps.