Dear Gaia:

But you are not dumb! Don’t say that about yourself again!

You had a good idea: put a wet blanket by the heater and it will dry, an intelligent idea. Did you ever put a wet something near a heater so it dries? If you did, I bet what happened was that it did get dry, so you figured yesterday to do the same.

Maybe you watched someone in your life place something wet by a heater and it got dry, so yesterday you figured that you’ll do the same.

We learn from experience and what worked well before, we do again.

Now let’s say you heard before, or were told in  a class to not put fabrics by a source of heat. That was a sentence you heard, not an experience you had. We forget most words we hear and remember our experience instead.

So now, you have a new experience, now you will remember to not place fabrics by a source of heat.

Gaia, please don’t call yourself dumb again, it makes me cringe!

anita