Why kids and babies are more creative than adults ?

Let's me introduce you Juliette (the little girl) and Manon (the baby), my friends Patrice and Catherine's daughters.

I would like to share with you some ideas about the innate capabilities that child have about learning and being creative. In a recent post from Garr Raynold "Play is good for you" i watched a video with the following experience made by Tim Brown the CEO of Ideo(a design company). Tim carried out an exercise with the adult audience : he got them to take a piece of paper and to draw the person next to them, their neighbour as quickly as possible. He told them "you have 30 seconds to draw your neighbour" . What about the results ? laughs and embarrassment ! Indeed if you do the exercise with adults, what happen every time is that you got a lot of laughters, a lot of embarrassment and a lot of "sorry" as a hearing.
Why ? Because as adult we fear the judgment of our peers and we are confused when it comes to share our idea to people we think they are our peers around us and that fear causes us to be conservative in our thinking. That explains we have sometimes a lot of good ideas we do not dare to communicate.
If you try the same exercise with kids, they have no embarrassment, they are just quite happy at showing their masterpiece to the others. But unfortunately when they learn to become adults they become much more sensitive to the opinion of others and they loose their freedom

So, as adults , we have to learn or relearn from the playfulness of kids :

• We have to learn how not being afraid by the way other people think about us and treat us. Not only we have to learn how not to be afraid by the opinion of others but additionally we have to build a strong self esteem and we need to acquire the ability to put self doubt aside. We have to relearn how to refuses (and so do young kids) to accept the limitations that others have tried to impose on us , and more importantly, we have to make our path by not accepting any of the limitations that we have previously imposed on ourselves. No doubt about our creativity and worthiness
• As kid do and behave in a secure and trusty environment we need to learn again how to break the bondage of fear of success and fear of failure. That's the ability of a given person to take the right decision for himself and his life achievement and afterwards to take the appropriate action without regard to how consequences affect the others (see also the book Thick Face Black Heart of Ching-Ning Chu)

All the best for juliette and Manon as creative and successful persons