Children are naturally curious and imaginative, especially when invited to play, experiment and discover. Adults have difficulty retaining a child-like wonder that doesn’t care what others think about what they are currently interested in.

Sir Ken Robinson defines creativity as “original ideas that have value,” but cautions that we won’t come up with anything original if we aren’t prepared to be wrong. Perhaps this one fact explains why most adults do not become more creative. “We are educated” he said, “to become good workers not creative thinkers.”

I’ve always been a curious person, even a wonk in areas that interest (and sometimes obsess) me. Curious people carefully attend to the intriguing, unusual and remarkable events transpiring around them. They believe that every moment is ripe with opportunity! Ultimately, curiosity is chasing a moment of interest and turning it into a moment of understanding.

Resourcefulness, ingenuity and creativity require us to adopt a rhythm–a practical and powerful rule of life–that makes a space to explore and experiment and contemplate and dream in all directions . . . behind you, before you and beyond you.

P.S. I hear that little voice arguing “I don’t have time!” Someone once told me that you’ll never find time–you have to make time.

“Life is not made of the dreams we dream but the choices we make.” Joseph Stowell