<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Children often display greater cognitive... > Children often display greater cognitive flexibility because fewer identities and routines have hardened into necessity. Adults can recover flexibility through novelty, practice, error tolerance, and deliberate encounters with perspectives that do not confirm them. **Source:** [[livestreams/Metacognition, Flexible Identity, and Meeting Opportunity Halfway - Workbook|Metacognition, Flexible Identity, and Meeting Opportunity Halfway]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Children often display greater cognitive flexibility because fewer identities and routines have hardened into necessity. Adults can recover flexibility through novelty, practice, error tolerance, and deliberate encounters with perspectives that do not confirm them.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-children-often-display-encounters-perspectives-confirm ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->