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Now this may seem a little backwards, but I think the best way to become more creative is to allow yourself to think like a child. Not every thought has to be logical, has to make sense, has to be socially normal.

My baby brother asked me if the computer was a TV too. Now this question probably doesn’t make much sense, a computer obviously isn’t a tv. But think about this. The first ‘computers’ didn’t have screens. They had punch cards, and they printed. There was no visual display. But someone came up with the idea that the information that a computer computes could be shown on a display similar to that of a tv, and the rest is history. My 3 year old baby brother was able to make that connection. Were you?

The reason children are able to come up with so many off the while ideas, make so many connections, play by themselves with little or nothing to play with, and do all the other crazy things little kids do is because they have not yet met boundaries. They are not confined into what is socially acceptable. I read once, a baby will just as easily eat his shoe and wear a banana peel on his foot as the other way around. Now while this seems silly, it is exactly what enables them to learn so much, so much faster than you and I can learn. They will find connections from any one item to any second item, they will explore every possibility to everything around them, they don’t worry about what people think or if what they are doing is acceptable. Children are explorers, thinkers, artists, creators.

We could all use a little childhood creativity, don’t you think?

Check out this article by Susan Tayor Brown titled “50 Ways to Think Like a Child.”

http://www.susantaylorbrown.com/thinkchild.html

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