Imagination: the source of all innovation

Imagining and reconnecting with our ‘inner child’ can have huge benefits, even for business. McKinsey & Company recently pointed out that children have invented some of our most well known products like the trampoline, popsicles and earmuffs.

“Kids have a special way of cultivating creativity—and some even see their crafty ideas develop into lucrative business opportunities,” the firm noted in a post this year called ‘How to think like a kid’.

Do you want to tap into that playful childlike experimental frame of mind, that inquisitive nature that leads to breakthroughs like these:

  • Braille; invented by a young Louis Braille who lost his sight at age three

  • Christmas lights; the brainchild of Albert Sadacca who enlisted his parents’ novelty lighting company to make them in 1925

  • Snowmobiles; underwent many iterations after a first attempt by Joseph-Armand Bombardier who, at age 15, attached a Ford Model T engine to four runners and added a handmade propeller onto its back.

If you want to gain access to that imaginative, experimental mindset, to take an innovative path, there is a way to reconnect with your imagination.

At Imagination Session, we can help you to reconnect with your imagination. We offer team building exercises that have a triple benefit; enhancing wellbeing, creativity and innovation. To discover more, contact us.

Dawn Adams

Dawn Adams is a Griffith University Industry Fellow and Imagination Session® Founder. After reconnecting with her imagination in lockdowns, she now shares its many benefits through experiential sessions.

https://imaginationsession.com
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