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Old 08-09-2004, 10:05 AM   #10 (permalink)
CSflim
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Originally posted by ratbastid
Not true! Newborn babies swim like olympic champions. Throw 'em right in the pool and they instinctively hold their breath and start paddling. So what's the difference between a newborn and a drowning victim? The drowning victim knows he can't swim. The baby doesn't know he can't swim.

We have to LEARN that we can fail before failure is possible for us.

That's all for today, grasshopper.
In that case, lets see a newborn baby taking up Martin Gardner's challenge.

After all if the baby doesn't know that the law of gravity requires him to be splattered against the pavement, surely that means he won't.

I know which outcome my money is on.
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