Few experiences are as humbling as recalling the confused confidence you invested in what you knew when you didn’t know much. Revisiting the past is a lot like imagining the future; the stories you tell reveal more about who you are than who you were. Yet we do it anyway. Mostly because time teaches us that resilience—our ability to overcome the adversities life presents—is built on self-awareness. The bliss of ignorance is fleeting, and it can never equal the joy of discovering something wonderful and mysterious. When it comes to my career in early education, I may have been slow on the uptake but my experiences and observations over many years and in hundreds of early learning classrooms taught me that a thriving early learning space is something uniquely wonderful and mysterious.