Unafraid is the title of the intro written by Lars Ulrich - you know, the Metallica guy - for a book called A Work in Progress: A Journal by René Redzepi, the chef behind Noma, one of the greatest restaurants in the world. I really like the title - A Work in Progress. It’s a window into the life of one of the most creative minds out there. A chance to peek through the keyhole and see how that kind of creativity even happens, how the whole process takes shape and if there is any magic involved (there isn't any, it's mostly hard work). What the work is doesn’t really matter. In this case, it’s food - but it could just as well be anything else. That’s why having a musician like Lars Ulrich write the intro makes perfect sense. Redzepi channels his creativity into dishes, Ulrich into music - different mediums, same fire behind it. That’s what makes it so fascinating - creativity always finds a way out, no matter who you are or where you’re planted.

Stick someone on Staten Island, and you get the Wu-Tang Clan.Trap someone in a Siberian prison camp, and you get The Gulag Archipelago.Hand a love for cooking to an Albanian kid growing up in Copenhagen, and you get Noma.

Different stories, same spark breaking through.

I don’t think creativity is some rare gift. I believe it’s built into all of us - it’s part of being human, something we’re born with. The world around us is buzzing with creative energy, and everything that exists is somehow powered by it. Ideas are out there, waiting. It’s on us to notice them, to grab hold. Kids are especially good at that - untouched by all the noise and doubt, fear and losses we pick up along the way, they meet the world with wonder and open hearts.

And it’s up to us, as dads, to help them hold on to that.

So they grow up bold.So they stay unafraid.