I can't get this out of my head, so I'm just good to tell you. You know the game I played when I was

bottomed out the most? I read about it during the pandemic. What's on my butt? Do you know what's on my

butt? What is it? You want to hear about the game? I do. You lay down flat on the couch or on the

bed.

Yeah, yeah.

You lay down.

You close your eyes and the kids put something on your butt and you get to guess what it is.

Raise a creative kid.

Every parent I talk to is being told that right now.

Raise a creative kid.

Protect their imagination.

Nothing's going to matter in the world going forward except for originality.

It's on every podcast, every parenting account, every school newsletter.

And then I read Austin Cleon's new book.

And it felt initially counterintuitive and then retrospectively obvious. Because Austin's whole argument is, your kid already has it. The imagination, the originality, the

creativity. It's not something we have to install in them. We don't have to give it to them.

It's something they came with. And so the question isn't how to put it in there or build it.

The question, what we're really going to be talking about today, and it's mind-blowing stuff,

but also remarkably simple, is how do we kind of just create the conditions to preserve it and for our kid to access it?

And then there's also a little bit of a deeper question, which I think you're going to appreciate.

Do we have access to ours?

And guess what?

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