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Babies understand that getting what you want in life means putting in the effort

• https://www.popsci.com

Never underestimate the mind of a 10-month-old.

Researchers found that infants as young as 10 months old understand that getting what you really want in life means putting in the effort necessary to get it.

In life, we often go through a lot of effort to get what we want. In fact, we've created an entire economical model out of it. Value is a balance of two things: how rewarding a particular thing is and the effort a person must go through to obtain it. Both cost and reward depend on the situation and the person—your goal may not be the same as someone else's goal—as well as the particular challenges it takes to get there. A lot of complex thought goes into weighing these transactions, but that's just life. A new study out in the journal Science suggest that we may actually start thinking this way before we can walk.

Developmental psychologists have debated at what point humans achieve this sort of unified, intuitive weighting of goals. Are we born with it, or is this something that happens later in life, informed by tons of experience in decision making and goal achieving?


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