Creative Uncertainty

How do you convince people to trust a new generation with new ideas? i think it's not just the old guard. Most of us actually don't like uncertainty and risk, we tend to be risked adverse. One quick example that i often use is based on being ofootedo. If we allow these little openings, rather than just cind o dismiss a kid's idea, where a kid might say, add three back to six and get nine, we might be like, now, you need think about that some more.