When adults are given a box, they just see a box. When children are given a box, they can imagine a lot more different things…
Maybe it’s the home for a puppy? Maybe we can make a toy car out of it?…
Somehow, schools make us “unlearn” creativity.
As a child, we used to be creative; but once we entered school, we learned to be discipline and to be careful not to make any mistakes.
Sir Ken Robinson said in his famous TED Talk Do schools kill creativity,[1]
What we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong… And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
We were taught to aim for perfection and compliments.
While creative people know perfection doesn’t exist. They aren’t afraid to make mistakes or get rejected. They actively look for criticism so that they can make things better.
Instant success is a myth. All successful people made mistakes and got rejected A LOT.
Like Henry Ford, well-known for his American-made cars, went broke fives times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.
Walt Disney was also not an instant success. Before he started the Disney business, he was fired by a newspaper editor because he “lacked imagination and had no good…
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