Just before putting my 3-year-old son to bed, I asked if he ever wanted to go to the train museum.
His response? “Will we see the train’s bones?”
Instantly, I realized that he was still in “Natural History Museum mode” after seeing dinosaur skeletons on our last trip. It was hilarious – and brilliant.
What a reminder of how creative kids are. To him, anything could have bones, even trains! It’s that same unfiltered imagination that startup founders thrive on.
Kids don’t box in ideas, they mash them together in unexpected ways – exactly what innovation is all about. So maybe next time I brainstorm, I’ll ask him what kind of bones a startup unicorn might have 🙂
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