MIND OF A CHILD

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college—that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, You mean they forget? HOWARD IKOMOTO

Picasso at twenty could paint as well as anyone in the world; Einstein at twenty could do physics as well as anyone in the world. While each of them had reached the limits of their domain, they shared what seems to have been a childlike freshness in their approach to their work. They both seemed to be always puzzled in the same nature and about the same sort of things children puzzle about.

Einstein asked what it would be like to travel in a beam of light. Very few adults ask that kind of question, but kids do.

Picasso asked, What can we do if we take an object and break it down and fragment it into many different parts? Freud asked basic childish questions about his dreams. Martha Graham danced in the most formal yet elemental ways. They seemed to know always what was like to be a child. A free explorer yet always puzzled about how it works. Motivation first takes root in childhood.

When adults reflect on those times they have been most motivated and expressive, they often describe it as a "letting-go" or "white moments" experience. A condition in which many athletes feel the same. It is also at that point of letting go and white moment that people are also most creative. Meditating, stretching, playing an instrument, dancing, breathing deeply are also known as sources of motivation and creativity.

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