Think Like a 5 Year Old: Reclaim Your Wonder & Create Great Things

Think Like a 5 Year Old: Reclaim Your Wonder & Create Great Things

According to a recent Gallup report, only 13% of people are "actively engaged" in their jobs , 63 percent merely put in their time, and the remaining 24% are actively disengaged. People are bored at work, at home, in personal habits, and in their spiritual lives. Over time a pattern of loss in vitality and a shift towards fear, comfort, and consumption is leaving them feeling unfulfilled and less creative. Think Like a 5 Year Old  explores a documented phenomenon in which people almost universally exhibit genius-level creativity as young children but lose it as they become adults--and what we can do to reverse this trend. With this book, learn the story of your creativity: why you had it in the beginning, how you lost it, and how to get it back, to create great things. Wilson proposes that every person is called to a life of creativity. This means knowing how you are made, reclaiming your passions, learning the craft of creativity as an act of faith, and surrendering the creative process to God. "Having been made in the Creator God's image, we are born creative, yet we tend to agree in theory but disagree in practice," notes Wilson. "Respected creative thinkers such as Sir Ken Robinson, Paul Torrance, and Seth Godin offer insights, but the problem is that while everyone has this supernatural power within them, they've lost sight of it. They've given in to forces that steal and destroy our innate joy. We don't feel creative--and consequently, we don't feel fulfilled." Wilson redefines the word "creativity" using a framework of categories such as compassion, problem solving, engineering, and artistic expression. Creativity is about being attentive to and acting in response to the combination of ideas and reactions and preferences that form one's view of the world. This perspective, this unique form of expression, is the identity given to them by God and the origin of their creativity. "Think Like a Five Year Old invites us to take a bold, surrendered risk into a more creative, fulfilling life."-- Rebekah Lyons , Author, Freefall to Fly "As a pastor and counselor, it has always burdened me to see a person stop taking risks, stop creating, stop living life to the fullest. Thank you Len for encouraging us to dream again!"-- Ron Edmondson , pastor, blogger "This remarkable book is for all of us who long to recapture the wondrous creativity we once took for granted. I highly recommend this practical and inspiring work."-- Nancy Beach , author of The Hour on Sunday and Gifted to Lead You were once a creative genius. The key to reclaiming our wonder is to become a new creation - to rediscover our creativity, as we were made in the beginning. On the last page of the book I invite the reader to dig deeper in study and application with a study guide. The goals of this free eBook (in ePub and PDF) companion are: 1) for you to develop a practical theology of creativity and 2) to walk away with the necessary next steps and to-dos for getting started on the work of creating. Go here to download the free 40-page companion Study and Application Guide for Think Like a Five Year Old:  lenwilson.us/think-five-study-guide/ "Creativity is critical to most endeavors, yet at times in everyone's life, and in every organization, the wellspring runs dry. Len Wilson's book is gift that will inspire and foster creativity. Filled with terrific examples, this book will benefit leaders and teams in any line of work." - Adam Hamilton , Author, Senior Pastor, The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Leawood, KS "I've always believed that everyone is born creative. But there's something about entering the educational system that starts pushing our sense of wonder into the background. Now, Len Wilson shows us how to rediscover our imagination in his amazing new book Think Like A 5 Year Old. Get this book, because after reading it, you'll never look at life's challenges the same way again."-- Phil Cooke , filmmaker, media consultant, and author of One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do "I can't recommend this book strongly enough. Len Wilson's work is not only significant and inspiring, but critical for our society in this time. His insights are perhaps especially important for church leaders as we attempt to discover how to make the Gospel message authentic in our ever-changing and isolating landscape. Spirituality and creativity cannot be separated. We all need to be called again to become childlike in our faith, our imagination and our sense of wonder and possibility that we may recapture the creativity the Creator placed in all of us. This book is for the closet-creative and child in each of us that is just waiting to break free."-- Gary Rivas , Pastor, Gracepoint Church, Johannesburg, South Africa "Len writes as a man who is both deeply creative and intensely pastoral. In Think Like a Five Year Old, he dives deeply into the heart of any person who believes that creativity matters. In his thought-pro