Childhood 
Exponential learning 

Age period: 0 to 12 years.

This level describes the step-by-step development in roughly the first 12 years of life: from total dependence and innocence of a newborn baby to a gradual loss of innocence at the onset of puberty.
In these first 12 years, the wild, wordless, spontaneous nature develops into a linguistic, relatively adapted culture. The development of new skills proceeds exponentially: in this relatively short period, the child learns to eat, crawl, walk, talk, potty train, play, play sports, draw, build, joke, dance, sing, make music, party, ride a bike, make friends, read, write, do basic maths, dressing oneself, self-control, cleaning one’s own room, working together, standing up for one’s opinions, caring for others, moving from concrete to symbolic and later to abstract thinking, and much more.

In Bitcoin-Leadership this is the foundation we need to stay interested and curious. You can see that childlike, playful energy with leaders like Max Keiser and Stacey Herbert. They have at their disposition a childlike innocence and playfulness and combine that with high level historical and political awareness. This first level of normal consciousness, Simplicity, is a very important foundation for Bitcoin advocacy. It helps us to stay young and open while we grow intellectually.  We call this level ‘normal’ to differentiate it from the mythic, dreamlike subconscious zero level called Universality.