Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.