One Apple A Day #268
I love to observe very young kids when they find an object. It’s fascinating how they see in that object something that for us, adults, is invisible. A stick becomes a sword, and a cardboard box become a house, two chairs make a train and so on.
It is as if their eyes can challenge the constraints of the physical word and go beyond them.
At some point of our growth, we learn that a stick is a stick. We learn how it is made and what it can and can not do. All this knowledge becomes a fact. It becomes a truth, and we soon learned that it is pointless to challenge a truth.
Kids don’t need to be inspired. They are always in a state of inspiration. A state of mind that allows them to go beyond what our senses perceived and challenge it.
I recognise the same mindset in artists. An artist can make us see through her work what is invisible to our senses. Great innovators do the same.
They look at something, and they see opportunities to change, possibilities for something new, for a different reality. But they don’t stop there; that would be just dreaming.
They make their vision real. First in their heads, then in their words and finally in their actions.
Sometimes going against the world that thinks that they are crazy.
Innovation is about seeing what is possible, believe in it and make it visible to everyone.
To do so, we must look at the world with the fresh eyes of a kid. And have the courage to pursue what we see, even if the others, the adults, can not see it.
We need to rediscover our kidfulness.