Reruns in Our Lives vs. Originality Always begin with a few quotes. “Insist upon yourself. Be original.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Sir Ken Robinson “All good things that exist are the fruits of originality.” - John Stuart Mills These quotes, taken from a milk carton, were likely put there to inspire or maybe to fill a little space. They sustain all we celebrate originality -thoeretically. Yet, many of not most of us take great effort to avoid originality, preferring to live our life as a rerun. We prefer to repeat old habits, to travel on familiar paths, and to change little from our well worn ways. For kids, everyday is full of “newness.” They are seeing, exploring, and learning all the time – much of it is new. Their world is so very much different from ours. In fact, the expression we love to use, “I feel like a kid again,” seems to hearken back thos
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