In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- True innovation requires returning to the primal origins of human experience.
- In plain terms
- To make something new, go back to how humans started.
- What can you take from it?
- Return to origins to innovate.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is your original source?
- What did humanity start with?
Another view
Romanticizing childhood can lead to simplistic solutions.
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