This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Nature's Agenda of Self-Regulation" created on November 14, 2025. It discusses the natural development of self-regulation in humans, comparing it to an acorn's growth into an oak tree, emphasizing the importance of providing the right environment for children's development rather than solely focusing on teaching skills.
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Nature has got a natural agenda is that you should grow up to be a self regulated adult in connection with yourself and with other people. Nature has an agenda for an acorn to become an oak tree. But an acorn doesn't spontaneously become an oak tree. It has to have the right conditions. So it's not a question of teaching the acorn to be an oak tree, just give it the nourishment and the sunlight and the earth and irrigation that it needs. Its nature is to become an oak tree. The nature of human beings is to become self regulated, socially responsible creatures. That's how we evolved. Given the right conditions, that will happen. So. So it's not a question of teaching all these things. Mostly it's the question of meeting children's needs, giving them the right conditions and then they will develop self regulation in the right environment. These traits spontaneously evolve or develop in a human being. So our society is always about how do we teach these skills? And no skills teaching is important, but more important is the child's spontaneous growth given the right environment. And what I'm saying about this toxic culture, we don't give our kids the right environment.