“To know is nothing at all. To imagine is everything.” – Anatole France, French poet and Nobel Prize recipient for Literature

Each of us is born with a bottomless well of creativity. If you doubt this, observe how toddlers are “seriously at work” during their playtime. You’ll learn a lot about curiosity, imagination and originality from them. You’ll be impressed at how and where they get their ideas. I’m pretty sure of this, because this is what I’ve realized in the past months.

I’ve done marketing and communications work for more than 15 years. Reading materials, conversations, and training programs on creativity have been a big part of my everyday life in all those years. But it’s only in the recent months that I’ve had practical lessons from the most inspiring guru that I’ve...