It is important to keep a child-like innocence and
open-mindedness throughout one's life.
Child-like
thinking is more intuitive: Sometime, a child can instinctively figure out the
solution to a problem simpler than adult! They have better gut feeling or more “aha’
moments when discovering the new world, as they have more connected
relationship with nature, they are open to unknowns, their intuitive mind can
connect the dots boldly to create such flash of insight or convey the unconventional
wisdom.
Child-like
thinking can produce innovation, because they have the beginner’s mind: They enjoy
experimenting and discovering; there’s no rule to limit their imagination; but when you start to be socialized to fit in the surrounding, or enter
your work as a adult, you place yourself in a different mindset, you start to fear that
your creativity will be seen as disruptive, infantile, you live up or down to
other people's expectations, you set limit to fall into conventional wisdom,
and you just become lack of the curiosity.
A
child-like mind is full of imagination: As children we are conditioned
to imagine, explore and create with cues from our environment and ability to discover
and question it. As Einstein well put knowledge is limited, but imagination
encircles the world. Children are not afraid of blurting out their thoughts. But
adults are normally scared. Adult knows the world and set limit to stay in
their comfort zone. They think for logical solution. Most of adult don't change
their life radically than children. They hamper themselves to be creative, not just out
of the desire to conform to a set of rules or guidelines but out of fear that they
will be seen as unusual, strange, that they will not fit in.
Education
effect upon child-like mindset: On one hand, education is the
key to gain knowledge, and the mind equipped with knowledge can broaden one’s
worldviews and sharpen one’s cognitive understanding, increase the mind’s capability
and capacity to think critically and systematically; years of learning are
required in order that one's contribution to change in the world be significant,
and not simply incremental. However, the cons of education are perhaps that the
intuitive mind is suppressed by the rational thinking process taught in school
and society. The subconscious mind is suppressed to unleash the potential of
breakthrough thinking which can bridge the visible and invisible, conscious and subconscious
and physical and spiritual. The brain's ability to pattern and its reticular activating system (RAS) that works between conscious and unconscious conspire
with the way kids need to be encouraged and seek to simplify complexity.
Still, there are creative adults in almost every
profession, especially like designers, artists, poets, etc. There are probably
several component that are important for being innovative, such as being creative,
proactive, knowable (multi T-shaped), experienced, strong social capital and
being at the right place at the right time. It is important to release of our
childlike qualities, which we all still have, takes off the shackles of making
corporate presentations and actually makes your presentation, be open, be
curious, be childlike, and be free to think creatively.
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