In the early years of your life you were creative [see photo]. Then you go to school and lose that human facility. Is it any wonder that kids cry on the first day of school? And yet most of us do not cry on the first day at work - go figure.
Many of the most creative people on this planet were amazingly creative as young children. Some excelled with verbal skills. Some excelled with motion skills. Some excelled with artistic skills. Everyone of them had creativity talents that were killed off first at school and later in the workplace.
The creative folks who survived the creative numbing impact of the modern education system did so by being inattentive, being thrown out of the classroom, living inside their heads, playing alone in the schoolyard, etc. These kids were called rebels.
At "the school without walls" in Australia all the kids were rebels. Which meant they had a great childhood but were singularly unqualified for almost any job they might later seek to obtain. The most often heard comment about such kids is "they do not know how to play nicely with the other kids". Of course most of these kids went on to create their own job and many of them then hired folks who were just like them.
As a collective we humans waste more time, energy, and human capital then we care to admit by trying to recapture the creativity and innovativeness of young kids [see photo]. For instance we have an almost infinite array of TEDx talks about creativity, change, and innovation from people who are signed-up members of the tyrannical system they urge us to recreate. Most of these folks are boring not because the content they deliver lacks relevance; but, because they are not themselves creative. Some break that mould and so they speak directly to us through TED and the classic talks delivered by those few rare presenters actually change the world around them and us. These folks inspire change, creativity, and innovation within each of us - perhaps this is because they remind us what it is like to be child like and thus to be innovative and creative. Look at any one of Sir Ken Robinson's TED talks and you will get the real message of this riff.
Richard
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