Creativity of children
The word triggers memory down the lane. I have taken classes about creativity , innovation. But did I really innovate myself ? I would say no to an extent and yes to an extent. Creativity is thinking without inhibhitons. It is like the efforts taken by the wright brothers to fly. “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”- Edward de Bono I have become set in my thinking I taught my son that the tracks in the rail game must be circular or oval. I have grown into the monster of control perfection that I forgot what is to think out of box. I left my kid to play on his own and when I was back I saw a track pattern in the shape of a curve. I thought it as a bell curve and was amused how come he connected like it when I had taught him how to do it. I have become so set in my beliefs and practise that I don’t see a new way or an alternate path. I remembered his teachers telling me not to interrupt my son thinking