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1. Introduction: Being able to think
differently is a good thing. That's what creative
thinking pretty much is. The ability to
think differently. It's also the ability to make connections from
different spheres of knowledge to produce something
useful to someone else. The thing with creativity
is that it's not this thing that's reserved for only a few people out there, is a skill that
can be worked out, exercised even more and eventually mastered
or better yet, we can pursue this mastery
for the rest of our lives. My name is modulatory. The founder of Armani talks, a media company which
helps engineers and entrepreneurs improve their
communication skills. One of the skillsets covered
by the brand is creativity. In this class,
you're going to get a few different
workouts that you can play around with in order to improve your
creative muscles. So you're creating
better content, delivering compelling ideas, and consistently providing
creative insights that will change your
industry for the best. Does that sound interesting? If so, I look forward
to seeing you inside.
2. Identify Value of Creativity: Before we start with his games, one of the things that we
want to do first is to identify the value
of creativity. Because here's the thing. Our brain has
different features. One of the features is known
as the negativity bias. This is the bias where
the brain tends to over amplify the negative
information that we're perceiving over
the positive emotions. You want to know why that is, is because it's
something that's primal. For our ancient ancestors. They needed to be
aware of the negatives over the positives
for survival reasons. Therefore, nowadays, our
brains tend to focus on the one criticism over the 10 thousand
rounds of applause. Luckily, this can be
rewired through gratitude. We just have to understand
that the brain often defaults into certain
lines of behavior. Another part of the brain views creativity as something
for little kids. If you don't check
that, then U2, at a default rate, will view creativity
as little kids. This isn't going to
give you a D enthusiasm to apply these exercises
that we're going to shortly discuss, which is y, one way to assign importance
to creativity is to articulate some of the
practical benefits that we can expect
to get from it. For me personally, I
run a media company. For me, one of the key parts of running the
company is content. What exactly is content? There's different definitions
out there for it. Uh, my definition
is frozen thoughts. That's all these blog posts are, that's all these classes
are, YouTube videos, etc. So when I realized that
content is important for the Armani talks business and content in itself
or frozen thoughts. Wouldn't it be cool if I
had compelling thoughts? What are compelling dots? Creativity? That was
my reverse engineering of assigning importance
to creativity. So I'm much more
likely to apply it and exercise my creative
thinking faculties. Language for you. If
you're creative enough, That's a little play on words. Then u2 can find out how creativity will help
you in your life, will help you maintain better relationships or create
compelling conversations. Design better
presentations, gone, and get creative with it. But make sure that you are
capable of articulating the practical benefits that creativity will
have in your life.
3. Ex.1 : Activities with the opposite hand: The first exercise is to do common activities with
the opposite hand. If you're normally writing
with your right hand, I try writing with
your left hand. If you normally use the mouse
which are right hand, a. Try using your left hand. If you normally
brush your teeth, which are left hand, try it out with your right hand. The question is, why? The reason why is because the mind is linked
with the body. And the body is
linked with the mind. You don't believe me. We'll try this out. Try
frowning for a second. When you're frowning,
you'll notice that mentally you feel smaller. Now try smiling for a second. Automatically the brain
releases endorphins, which are feel-good chemicals. It makes the person who's
smiling feel better. There's a link between
the body and the mind. When we shock the body by doing ordinary activities
with the opposite hand. What does shorts to
do is it starts to unlock different modes
of thinking in the mind. It starts to also think and
function in a different way. This isn't going to
be something that you notice immediately, is going to be something that you notice as long as you are practicing the skill set and every now and then,
switching it up. Whether it's in the morning when you're brushing your teeth, whether it's when you're writing something or any other
activity you can think of. Every now and then,
switch it up and you will notice a
switch and thinking.
5. Ex. 3: Journaling: There are so many
different ways to journal. There's the free flow method, There's gratitude journaling. And then another journaling is the creative writing
prompts method. This is when the journal has a creative writing prompt for the journal or to implement. This is something that you
can either buy from Amazon, just type in a creative
writing journal, or it's something that you can a simply Google on yourself. Just go on Google and type
in creative writing prompts. And I'm sure a plenty of them
will populate and come up. This is when it's up to you
to bring this prompt to life. There are no rules. However, I will give you a
rule if you would like it. Try to keep it one page, it's best to warm up, get that one-page down. Then eventually you
could add on to this. We don't want to
overwhelm you too much from the beginning stages. For the creative writing
prompts journal, it gets the prompt,
bringing it to life, whatever the prompt is. If it's silly,
that's a good thing. Let's say it's
something like make a prompt about why a hippo wants to turn into
a purple hippo. At first, the adult mind is
like, well that's ridiculous. Why would a hippo possibly want to turn into
a purple hippo? And the more we have a reaction like that, like
that's ridiculous, the more opportunity
that we have in order to exercise a creative
thinking faculties. Final prompt, and
bring it to life and level up your
creative thinking skills.
6. Ex. 4: Make connections: Creativity is the art of
not only noticing things, but also connecting
things as well. I want you to find two
completely disparate items and find some connections
between these disparate items. And I'll give you an example. Throughout my life, I've served
as an electrical engineer and I've served as
a public speaker in a public speaking club. Imagine how shocking it
was when I started to see a connection between digital
products and people. I wanted to understand
what exactly is empathy. When someone says, you should
empathize with this person, how can I perceive it? That's when my electrical
engineering knowledge was going to help me understand the people that I was communicating with
in public speaking. How would electrical
engineering, when we think about it, there are so many
electrical items out there. There's a lamp, there's a TV, or there's a camera. Now hypothetically,
you just imagine that a TV and a camera could
fight with one another. And you have to be
the peacemaker. You come in and
you're like, Hey, hey, stop fighting guys. They're like, well, why should we that's when you're like, well, the reason why is because you guys have
something in common. Now these two objects look at each other and they're like, we don't have
anything in common. But that's when
you're like, Yes, you do is called electricity. Due to electricity, both of you parts are capable
of functioning. There's something in common. Likewise with people, imagine two different
people are fighting. And now, once again, you have to be the peacemaker.
What are you gonna do? Well, for me, I'd
be like, Listen, I know you guys look different, but there's something in
common that you guys have. Well, what's that? The breath, suddenly
there's this parallel that's been created from the breath and electricity. And this is a peek
into creativity. Can you do something like that? Can you find a certain
connection that other people are not
capable of perceiving. Now notice something
for my story. I had basic levels
of knowledge and electrical engineering
and public speaking to spot this connection for you as you're trying to connect different fields of knowledge. I recommend that you have a
certain level of competency and each field of knowledge in order to draw that analogy. Every single time you
draw that analogy, every single time you love, pull up your creative muscle.
7. Ex. 5: One-minute story: Exercise number five is
the one-minute story. What the one-minute story
here are the simple rules. Your story needs to be at
least one minute or less, and it needs a character
conflict and lesson. These are the only two rules, one minute or less, and it needs a character
conflict lesson. You with me. Okay, let me just
give you a simple example. Jonathan is someone who wants to be more popular
on social media. And one day he's
over here scrolling through his Facebook and he notices that pictures of
dogs get the most likes. So Jonathan has a bright idea. He decides he's
going to get a dog. He gets the dog and he begins
taking pictures of it. And luckily, his face bookstores getting
a lot of likes as well. He started getting
more friend requests. But here's the problem. I've Jonathan's dog
keeps pooping and keeps waking them up in the
night through barking. Now Jonathan is
starting to realize, is it gonna be the Facebook
likes or my sanity. Jonathan realizes it's
time to give the dog away and he trades in
the dog for a cat. And lucky, lucky, he
just happens to level up his Facebook likes even more through the
method of the cat. Now, this was a
story that may have not been turning heads
or anything like that. But I'm not trying
to turn heads. All I'm trying to do is
create a story that's one minute or less
that has a character, Jonathan conflict,
and he gets a dog, and the dog is
hurting his sanity. And a lesson or conclusion, which is, he ends
up getting a cat, which is even more
quiet than a dog. And luckily he gets
just as many likes, if not more simple story. But from simple stories is
where complexity is built. So have your turnout it
try a one-minute story for yourself and see how
creative you can get.
8. Bonus: You've ever traveled
to a new location and did a thing called
people watching. It may be a guilty pleasure. You don't want other
people noticing that you're watching them. Sitting on the bench. All these different
people are walking by every now and then you think, well, what's this
person's story? Why is this person
rushing so much? Why is this person
walking so slow? Why is this person
wearing such a heavy looking for us when
it's so hot outside. This is people watching. A remix of that is
reading people's minds. Now wait, before you
turn this class off, let me explain where the origins
of this game comes from. Nikola Tesla was a famous
electrical engineer and during his time was known as one of the brightest minds out
there in his field. One of the reasons that he was such a creative thinker was because when
he was growing up, his parents would randomly
given these unorthodox games. And one of the games was for Nikola Tesla to try to read
other people's thoughts. First. I mean, he
couldn't logically prove if he was reading
their thoughts correctly, but that didn't matter. The simple act of trying
to read their thoughts allowed him to become hyperaware regarding
small little things. Whether it was a change
in facial expressions, whether it was a tonality, whether it was them
looking a certain way. And he was getting these
ideas which would eventually help home improve and his craft of electrical
engineering. This a game is pretty
much stemmed from Nikola Tesla's a childhood.
Try it out for yourself. It could be with a stranger or someone that you know very well. And just get in the habit of trying to read
their thoughts. And in that process
as you're thinking about what they're thinking about and then you're
articulating it is when suddenly you become hyper astute and you get better at noticing
the tiny little things.
9. Final Project: There you have it. Five
exercises to boost your creativity plus
one bonus game. Now for the final project, I want you to choose
one of these exercises, and I want you to try
it out for yourself. Once you're done, I
want you to write a report on your
experience with it. Start off by articulating the practical benefits that a creativity will
serve in your life. Then follow it up
with the exercise you chose and your
experience with it. How was it that it
come easy to you? Was it difficult? Did you notice any changes after the exercise? Get as detailed as you need to get and once you're
done with your report, I posted in the final project
section right on below. I look forward to reading it. I thank you very
much for joining this class on creative thinking. And if you want more content
from B or money talks brand, be sure to check out
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Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
