What does a childs drawing have to do with selling furniture?
Megatons! FIGURE A FIGURE B Serendipity is defined as an aptitude for making unlooked for, happy discoveries. Recently I made just such a serendipitous discovery when I asked my French teacher to suggest some reading to bolster my vocabulary. Among the things she handed me was a copy of “LE PETIT PRINCE” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a young French pilot whose brilliant career ended when he crashed his airplane in 1940. In the “LE PETIT PRINCE,” Saint-Exupery stresses the dichotomy between the simplicity with which children perceive things, versus the cluttered thought processes of adults who get lost in the maze of parts brought about by their habit of blind analysis. By relying on their unfettered imaginations, children tend to see the spellbinding creativity of things. Witness how enraptured a youngster is at the first sight of falling snow in contrast to how troubled we adults are by the same phenomenon. Or witness the amazement of a child bewildered by the poetic flight of a butter
