I heard a great story recently — I love telling it — of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did. The teacher was fascinated. She went over to her, and she said, “What are you drawing?” And the girl said, “I’m drawing a picture of God.” And the teacher said, “But nobody knows what God looks like.” And the girl said, “They will in a minute.”
This quote is from a TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson titled Do Schools Kill Creativity? The point he is making is that children are willing to play even when they don’t know all of the answers. This skill, being able to make a leap of faith, to “just start and let the work teach you” is not only playful, it’s brave and it’s necessary. If we only solve problems that we know the answers to, well, nothing interesting is going to happen.
Make the leap.
This post is part of a mini series on “12 Days of Play“
- Joy in Repetition
- Dream a Little Longer
- Make it Silly
- Sample + Remix
- The Whispered “Ah”
- Change the Season
- A Great Collaborator
- Say “Yes, And”
- Gold Seams
- Unlikely Pairings
- Sing it Out
- Make the Leap
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