Hello ,
In his book
Imagine, Jonah Lehrer writes about the advantages that come with having a childlike attitude:
Take this clever experiment, led by the psychologist Michael Robinson. He randomly assigned a few hundred undergraduates to two different groups. The first group was given the following instructions: "You are seven-years-old, and school is canceled.
You have the entire day to yourself. What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you see?"
The second group was given the exact same instructions, except the first sentence was deleted. As a result, these students didn't imagine themselves as seven-year-olds. After writing for ten minutes, the subjects in both groups were then
given various tests of creativity, such as trying to invent alternative uses for an old car tire, or listing all the things one could do with a brick.
Interestingly, the students who imagined themselves as young kids scored far higher on the creative tasks, coming up with twice as many ideas as the other group. It turns out that we
can recover the creativity we've lost with time. We just have to pretend we're little kids.
Jesus said something quite compelling about children in Matthew 18:3 - "And said, Verily I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
There's a difference between being "childish," and "child-like." Today, let's ask our Heavenly Father to help us to become the kind of children that He designed us to be!
Have a great day and God bless!
