So the other day I get asked as a part of my mental & psychical cleansing to write up a list of up to 15 things that were part of my childhood. Sounds rather simple and to the point. I go on right ahead and do such list, not all at once of course but rather remembering parts or things that I could recall the first. I'm not going to list all but here are some of the highlights..

- Playing on the swing
- Jumping on the trampoline
- Picking up these flower seeds and popping them (forget the name)
- Making a fort out of the sofa's cushions

After that was over it was interesting to realize that my childhood had in fact been a very rich one...curious, inquisitive and yet so naive. Reminded me of a TED talk I saw by Paula Scher, about Great design is serious (not solemn)

"Why are kids more creative than adults? Are they predisposed to be this way? Is it the fact that they have fewer responsibilities? Evidence is increasingly pointing towards play as being the major distinguishing factor.

After a certain age, for whatever reason, play becomes less socially acceptable. "Grow up!" someone might say, or "act your age!"

But play is the way we engage with the world, the way we see how it works, how it breaks, and when it hurts."

At the end of the session it suddenly came to me why before it was all so much 'easier' the flow of creating, drawing, designing. I wasn't bound to being solemn, I was so much more engaged with the world. Just like laying back on the grass and watching the sky - the shapes of the clouds with their slow-motion movie of fluffy figures.

It seems that the more the inner child or the child that we remember of, recalls our sensitivity (creativity!), kicking us out of the 'auto-pilot'. Hmm. Seems like I just found my design process.