Grit, girl. Grit! The 7 year old Product Manager (Part 6 and a half)

Jen Benz
2 min readMay 23, 2022

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A 7 year old’s journey to build grit through lessons in design thinking and entrepreneurship…with some help from her mom. Think of it like Product Management 101, but with a 1st grader.

A recap

In Part 6, Elena went broad with solutions using the Design Thinking technique “Crazy 8s.” Well, little sister Luisa wanted in on the action, and who am I to tell a five year old she can’t participate in this super fun activity?

So, without further ado, here are Luisa’s eight ideas.

Luisa (5 years old) comes up with 8 ideas.

She explains her ideas in this video:

Want to know what Elena (and maybe Luisa, if she feels like it) does next?

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→ Read Part 7: Prepping for Prototyping

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Jen Benz

Product leader @ LEGO Group. I’m a maker. I make stuff. If I am not making stuff, I am making plans to make stuff. More at jenbenz.com