Tag: Play

Whoever said play equals fun?

Children are the ultimate role models when it comes to creativity and how to engage with the world.

How they inspect blocks from every angle,

build towers without expectations,

make them crumble with joy.

And we can learn from how they deal with challenges and obstacles.

If a two-year-old tries to assemble train tracks, frustration is inevitable.

Yet the fascinating part is: the harder the challenge and the higher the frustration, the bigger the excitement when they solve it.

The same goes for any creative act—it’s full of peaks and valleys.

Let our kids be our mentors and relearn that frustration isn’t the enemy.

It’s the precondition for excitement.

Create choices before you make choices.

Divergent thinking is the ability to generate as many different ideas, options, or solutions as possible from a single starting challenge—such as a problem, task, question, or constraint.

In this early stage of the creative process, it’s all about quantity—not quality.

It’s about exploring and expanding possibilities—pushing approaches and directions. Especially the weird ones.

This is not the time for rules, restrictions, concerns, evaluations, judgments, or criticism.

Accept that, and the process begins to feel like play—twisting, turning, and transforming ideas in any way you can imagine.

Divergent thinking is the mental expansion before creative decisions are made.

The key is to let every single bit of mental data breathe.

Bottom Line

No thought is trivial.

We’ll see which of them survives throughout the process.

Only then will a decision be made—and chances are high that it might be the best one.