A CHILD in US
The Creative Thinking Handbook
Discover how to
Be a Creative Thinker
Coming August 2025: “A CHILD in Us” explores a powerful framework for cultivating the creative thinking skills identified as critical in the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025.
A CHiLD in Us – The Creative Thinking Handbook — The book is built around five core thinking traits — Curiosity, Heuristics, Imagination, Laconical Genius, and Deductive Reasoning. These are tools you already have inside you. This book helps you use them better, step by step.
The CHILD framework identifies five essential qualities for Creative Thinking:
This framework directly addresses three skills the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 identifies as critical between 2025 and 2030: Creative thinking, Curiosity, and Empathy, Active listening. Whether you’re an innovator, leader, educator, or lifelong learner, this framework offers practical tools to sharpen your creative edge in an AI-powered future.
The Future Belongs to Creative Thinkers : Future of Jobs Report 2025
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 identified Creative Thinking, Curiosity, Empathy, and Active Listening as the most crucial skills for 2030 and beyond. This book provides you with a comprehensive methodology to develop these essential human capabilities.
“A CHILD in Us: The Art and Science of Creative Thinking” is a powerful, in-depth resource designed to help you develop and strengthen these essential human skills. Whether you’re an innovator, leader, educator, or lifelong learner, this book offers a comprehensive framework to sharpen Creative Thinking, cultivate Curiosity, deepen Empathy, and master Active Listening for the future of work.
What You’ll Find in This Book
Relatable Stories
The kind of relatable stories that vary from one of the first known innovators-Leonardo da Vinci-to one of the latest superstars-Elon Musk: the book is full of examples where curiosity, creativity, and resilience are at their best in illustrating lessons that then become much closer and more meaningful while showing you that it is not only possible but highly recommended to embrace your CHILD.
Practical Exercises
Something that has no practical application is hard to learn. Practical exercises are assigned at the back of every chapter so you would have the know-how applied directly in your own life, starting with an observation journal up to outlining the plan of attack of a highly complicated problem.
Step-by-Step Guides
There are endless how-to guidelines to apply clear, action-driven ways of life by the CHILD traits to real life. While brainstorming, decision-making, or even when communicating one’s vision, there is always a roadmap.
Action-Oriented Insights
The focus is not just on understanding the traits but on using them to create tangible results. By the end of the book, you’ll have a personalized strategy for applying the CHILD framework to your goals and challenges.
About the Author
Gaurav is a Human-Centric Designpreneur, Technologist, Storyteller, Mentor, Idea Alchemist whose work lies at the intersection of empathy, design, and purpose. With over 25 years of experience of decoding Human behavior and their cultures to design compelling Brands & meaningful Products includes digital and physical experiences, Gaurav brings a unique lens that blends ancient Indian Buddhist Philosophies like shunyata and madhyamarg with cutting-edge design thinking and behavioral insights. Gaurav’s approach to design is thoughtful, balanced, and insight-driven. He sees design not as decoration or interface, but as dialogue—as a dynamic process of inquiry, iteration, and understanding. His belief that “great design begins and ends with people” fuels his practice, which fuses curiosity, aesthetics, psychology, and systems thinking into every project he touches.
Over the years, Gaurav has shaped experiences for Fortune 500 companies, government initiatives, startups, and social enterprises alike—translating complexity into clarity, technology into humanify, and intention into impact. He has mentored startups and creative teams, individuals across India and internationally, and continues to guide emerging entrepreneurs through programs like IIT Bombay E-Cell. Early in his career, he was named among the Top 25 Web Designers in Bangalore and Top 100 Mobile App Designers in India by SiliconIndia, recognitions that only scratched the surface of his vision.
He is the creative force behind two impactful ventures:
Humanify.Design — a human-centric design studio focused on crafting meaningful, elegant, and emotionally resonant experiences
Idaete — a thought leadership platform that provides strategic insights, tools, and resources for designers, changemakers, and organizations building the future around human needs
Work with Gaurav
Gaurav is available for consulting, mentoring, and interactive workshops focused on creative thinking, innovation strategy, and human-centered problem solving.
Whether you’re a startup looking to build with purpose, a corporate team seeking to unlock creative potential, or an organization navigating complex transformation—Gaurav brings strategic insight, creative energy, and decades of experience to help you drive meaningful impact.
