Who is the best creativity guru in the world?

Who is the best Creativity Guru in the world? I know your brain is already looking for the possible answers. Edword de Bono? Michael Michalko ? May be Tony Buzan? Like we say in all creativity workshops, there are no right or wrong answers. But in my view, the best person you can learn creative thinking from, is... Hold your breath... Your little daughter, a nephew, or grand children! How can I make a claim like this? Because that’s the truth. Ask any of the gurus and they will tell you to think like a child. A child can teach us by example. If we are ready to learn. Or should I say unlearn? Kids’ brains are not conditioned. They haven’t learnt the should’s and have-to’s of the adult world. They don’t know what’s possible and what’s not. To give you an example: One day my little daughter was crying, crawling on four legs, she was trying very hard to catch something on the floor: it was a patch of sunlight on the floor! To them it’s not a labelled world, every stimulus is new. What a blessing I should say! As kid’s brains are not conditioned, they are always curious and keep on making fresh connections. Once my son asked me where furniture came from? I explained to him that trees give us wood and we use that to make furniture. The next time we visited a furniture shop, he saw a wrought iron chair, and asked innocently: “Papa! Where do we find iron trees?” That’s the kind of fluidity and freshness we need to be creative. Observing kids and learning from them can give us new perspectives about life that we may never learn from any creativity book or theory. So play with kids more often, ask them questions and listen to their answers carefully. There are many great lessons for us.