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Like a Kid Again Can thinking like a child help your business?

By Nichole L. Torres

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When you were a child, everything seemed possible. Getting backto that kind of thinking could be just what you need to help youinnovate, says Jim Canterucci, author of Personal Brilliance: Mastering the Everyday HabitsThat Create a Lifetime of Success. Here are some of histhoughts on the matter.

What is the key to thinking like a child?

If you look at a child, you see the repetitive "why"questions--they're not assuming they know the answers. I thinkwe've turned off that questioning muscle. If we can get back tothinking like a child, asking a question and looking at things[with] a sense of wonder and awe... frequently, we'll find thatinnovation comes.

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