Yesterday night, at the end of this pretty social week, the first in London after my little european "tour", I was spending some brain cycles over the ideas and experiments on learning I heard in Paris.
I realized that, at least for myself, the "curiousity driven" behaviour rules not only my professional and educational grounds, but essentially all types of interaction with an environment and thus all skill development processes.
As the AIBO that has to choose what to try and learn, I will ponder all possible next actions (most often focusing just on the "shining" ones to tell you the truth), discard those that are simply impossible and take the first that labels "just" as sheer folly: after all, if there's even the slightest chance, it means it can be done.
Funny enough, it's the same pattern I follow in games, like WoW. I find simplified environment like Warcraft's one incredibly useful to test behaviours, don't you?
Well, what if instead of considering all actions that can be taken in an scenario, we try to investigate behaviourial patterns in a given area. Let's say: social interaction.
I reckon for me it's the same, and this was this week's epiphany: having spent thursday night surrounded by canadian immigrants, friday tasting wine with a couple of australians and yesterday walking through London with two of my very few Italian friends here, I came to the conclusion that, despite the fact I'm definitely a social type, I will tend to choose the most challenging conditions to be so. That is, not being satisfied to be in a foreign country, I'm not trying to merge in the Italian "tribe" in London nor that much among the Londonders... instead I'll keep on trying to explore new cultures and find those connections that could undisclose the "next step".
Nomad mindset again, I suppose.
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