Chapter 77 The observant Piaget

When Piaget was ten years old, he published his observations of white finches in a journal of natural research. Piaget, the world-renowned child development psychologist, showed his extraordinary talents early on, especially his keen observation of the surrounding things. When he was ten years old, he was given a white finch. He wrote a short report on the results of his observation of the white finch and sent it to a Swiss journal of natural research, which published his observation report.It can be said that it is unique in the history of science that he can publish research reports at the age of ten, so we can also know how keen his observation skills are.

As a teenager, Piaget developed a keen interest in molluscs and became a student of a mollusk collector at a museum near his home.After the death of this expert, he sent all the collected molluscs to Piaget in his last words, so Piaget got the first opportunity to make systematic scientific observations. He wrote a series of papers on his observations of molluscs. Published before he was sixteen.Because of these papers, Piaget became a well-known molluscist. A museum in Geneva even invited him to be its director. Of course, Piaget refused because he hadn't even graduated from high school at the time.

In his youth, Piaget was devoted to philosophy and biology.He read a lot of related works, trying to find answers to many difficult questions about the relationship between biology and knowledge. At that time, his favorite was Aristotle's logic.Aristotle discovered the laws of logic in nature and in knowledge. He was deeply influenced by it, and believed that logic could connect biology and knowledge, man and nature.On the one hand, he has the keen observation talent and curiosity of a naturalist, and on the other hand, he has the talent for philosophical understanding and insight. The integration and tension between the two can be said to be the main driving force for his later formation of his revolutionary theory.

During his studies, Piaget suffered from mild physical and mental breakdown due to repeated thinking about philosophical issues, and was sent to the mountains for recuperation.While recuperating on the mountain, he wrote a novel to vent his inner longing.This novel was in fact his life plan, the blueprint of his purpose in life; he outlined certain questions to which he hoped to find answers, and it turned out that he did find certain answers to certain questions.