Who is the best Creativity Guru in the world?
Posted: Monday, October 12, 2009
by Puneet Bhatnagar
The Creativity Mission
I know your brain is already looking for the possible answers.
Edword de Bono? Michael Michalko ?
May be Tony Buzan?
Like we say in all creativity workshops, there are no right or wrong answers.
But in my view, the best person you can learn creative thinking from, is...Hold your breath...
Your little daughter, a nephew, or grand children!
Because thats the truth. Ask any of the gurus and they will tell you to think like a child.
A child can teach us by example. If we are ready to learn. Or should I say unlearn?
Kids brains are not conditioned. They haven't learnt the shoulds and have-tos of the adult world.
They don't know what's possible and what's not.
To give you an example:
One day my little daughter was crying, crawling on four legs, she was trying very hard to catch something on the floor: it was a patch of sunlight on the floor!
To them its not a labelled world, every stimulus is new. What a blessing I should say!
As kids brains are not conditioned, they are always curious
and keep on making fresh connections.
Once my son asked me where furniture came from? I explained to him that trees give us wood and we use that to make furniture.
The next time we visited a furniture shop, he saw a wrought iron chair, and asked innocently: "Papa! Where do we find iron trees?"
That's the kind of fluidity and freshness we need to be creative.
Observing kids and learning from them can give us new perspectives about life, which we may never learn from any creativity book or theory.
So why not make it a point to play with kids more often, ask them questions
and listen to their answers carefully.
There are many great lessons for us.
Puneet Bhatnagar is a Creativity and NLP trainer, with 18 years of experience in the fields of advertising and media.
He writes with his own experience and conviction on the subjects of creativity, idea generation, subconscious mind power and branding related issues.
Now he runs his own Training company: The Creativity Mission.
To know more about him : http://www.thecreativitymission.com
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