Most would acknowledge that children generally tend to be very open and very trusting. They have a simplicity in this respect that adults tend to lack. It is also generally regarded that this loss of what is sometimes called innocence, occurs as the result of an increase in the demands that are made on you as you mature in life...

Whether that is true or not, what is important is that there is a distinct difference between the effectiveness of a decision made by an individual who is open, and a decision made by an individual who is not.

That difference is at the very heart of why decisions you make in your early years, decisions that can affect the rest of your life, are so very powerful...