“Kids says the darnedest things.” That’s the saying. But why is that the saying. Why don’t kids just do the safe boring thing? They’re incredibly vulnerable and tender creatures. They also have not yet built the hardened bumpers on every facet of life like we have as we grow up.
When kids say the darnedest things, they’re really saying extremely creative things that we just haven’t thought of because our mature bumpers constrain us and keep our thinking “inside the box.”
Kids don’t have the same boundaries that we have. And they tend to be more creative and imaginative with their ideas. Interesting to observe.
So what if we could suspend the constrains we assume? Maybe not forever. The bills do need to be paid. But what if we could set them aside for chunks of time that we dedicate toward deep thinking and creative ideas? Maybe things we once couldn’t solve would become easier. Maybe our creative work would become more creative? What if we could act like we were three again?