To my 4-year-old nephew, everything is an experiment.
Every conversation, play time, and new experience provide a combination of variables that he hasn’t seen before.
As the pieces interact, I can see him putting together a wider more nuanced perspective of the world.
At some point though, it seems children stop experimenting; they accept the world as it is and appear content with the status quo.
What causes that switch? And why can’t we keep that curiosity going in adulthood?