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“The greatest invention in
the world is the mind of a child” (Thomas Edison)
Curiosity is not the quality
reserved for the gifted few. Virtually every child is boundlessly curious. But overtime many of us
lost our childlike curiosity as we grow up. We stop searching for challenges and
exploring new ideas. Thus, Jean Piaget the psychologist suggests: “If you would be more creative stay in part a child, with the
creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed
by adult society.”
It is the child in you who
is creative, not the adult. The adult in you drives to Arena
Sukan sport centre and pay for the futsal court. The child in you goes
barefoot and plays in the street for free. The adult lifts heavy weights in the
gym. The child climbs the trees and play in the playground. The adult thinks
too much and too meticulous because he have too many knowledge and set by too
many boundaries, rules, assumptions and preconceptions. The child however is
innocent and free and does not know what he cannot or should not do and sees
the world as it actually is – not as it appears according to what we know
previously or taught to believe.
Jack
Foster in his book How to Get Ideas said
that adult tend to do what they or other people did the last time. He continues:
“To children there is no last time. Every time is the first time.
And so when they go exploring for ideas they explore a land that is fresh and
original, a land without rules, a land without borders or fences or walls or
boundaries, a land infinite with promise and opportunity.”
To
generate more ideas we need to be like child again. Let the child in you come out.
Play with matches. Play the piano with your chin. Ask crazy and most honest
questions. Draw pictures and colour the tree blue and the grass orange and the
cloud pink. Run barefoot at Taman Rimba
Recreation Park. Eat ice cream and sit by the sidewalk. Sing or whistle in the
elevator. Throw rocks. Create toys. Have fun. Be like a child – and you’ll be
surprise by how many new and fresh ideas you gets!
Lord, Give Us Today Our Daily Idea(s)
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