This great article from The Talent Code website shows this video of a baby playing (at high speed) 

The baby's approach, and resultant pattern reminded me a lot of Marius De Beer's talk about an Agile Mindset at a recent SCRUM.org.za gathering. Marius outlines the many, many things we need to do to become better software developers, and an approach to mastering them. 

The list includes many lean/agile things like;

  * Seek rapid feedback

  * One step build

  * Learn and use design patterns

  * Pair with someone

  ... and dozens more

In fact, there's so much to do that you cant do it all at once, so Marius advocates the "Toe Dipping" aproach. This entails; 

  * take a bite size chunk of one practice (e.g. reducing your build steps from 100 to 99, or 50)

  * learn from it

  * don't try to master it now. Move on and try part of another practice (e.g. Automated Tests)

  * rinse, revisit, repeat.

Much like the baby learns, don't you think?