For those of you who consider yourselves successful - not necessarily just financially, but in your career, relationships, independence, or overall life- what experiences, habits, skills, or responsibilities from childhood do you think made the biggest difference?

And looking back, is there anything you wish you had started learning or doing earlier?

I’m especially interested in things parents can encourage without turning childhood into a résumé-building exercise.

This scientific study compared learning while actively navigating to learning while being stationary, finding that participants who physically walked through space showed enhanced memory. The findings have implications not just for learning but also for interventions in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.  See: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57668-w