One of the many beauties of performing with Cirque du Soleil is experiencing their sandbox approach. They are big kids at heart, building elevators with no ceilings, attempting to stand up in new ways. Their lens is wide-angled and all encompassing. A kaleidoscope of promise.

Kids create amazing worlds in their malleable minds. Enchanted domains fueled by enthusiasm and inventiveness. With wings fully spanned, they are flying without a net to wondrous realms that adults have long forgotten and since abandoned. It’s a great shame that all these amazing, innocent possibilities become dulled in the murky quicksand of adulthood.

Your inner child is that wide-angled lens. Your inner child is your superpower. It’s the inner genius many forget to feed. Reconnect to that source and your imagination will indeed ‘take you everywhere.’

Everybody was once a child. Everybody still has the creative prowess hiding within them. It’s not ability reserved for the elite or for famous innovators and theatrical geniuses within Cirque du Soleil. That superpower fades and withers at each time a child hears “no you can’t,” or “that’s not possible,” or “that’s silly” from jaded, narrow-minded adults. We all experience this attitude in company meetings that don’t optimize opportunity and team potential. “No, that’s not going to work… No, we’ve always done that way.”

Failing hurts. Failing sucks. We haven’t truly failed until we give up, however… failure is what keeps people, brands relevant, athletes on top and cultures growing.

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