Another day has come and so does another post, full of creativity of course ;-)
Since you are reading this right now, it seems like I've got your attention on this topic - you won't regret it, I promise!
I'd like to split today's post into two parts:
1. My consideration process - how did I choose to do a blog? And why is this important?
2. Challenge - Create something new in 10 minutes!
My consideration process
As I already told you yesterday, if you want to solve a struggle you need a very very good idea. An idea which makes you at least 90% sure that what you have in mind will actually work. To get something that secure, you will need to do a lot of brainstorming and gather lots of ideas. In this part of the process it is not very important which kind of ideas you come up with, because a "bad idea" can certainly lead to a very good one, sometimes you just have to adapt some things to increase the probability that the idea will work.
So I did this. I sat down and tried to think about some (realistic) things which I could do to fulfill my assignment, you can have a look at this process here:
So as you can see I managed to gather 11 ideas. In my next step I actually thought about my teacher (hello there :-p) and tried to figure out what he will consider as a good idea and what I am actually capable of doing. This is something you should do as well when deciding on which idea you'll further work on. You should know if:
- you have enough time to do it
- you have the financial means to do it
- this kind of idea is realisable in the given circumstances
- you need help
- there are certain things you need to get first before starting to work on your idea.
If you've been considering all those things and you are sure that there is at least a 90%-chance that you'll be successful you should absolutely go for it.
And why did I choose to do this? I can give you the simple answer: of this idea I was the most sure of being able to manage it on time, show what I've learned and show my creative thinking (90% remember?).
Challenge
To conclude today's post I came up with a little challenge, similar to a challenge which we were given in the class. I gave myself 10 minutes (sometimes creativity also has to work under time pressure) to come up with a beautiful poem. In the video below you can see how I got along with this challenge ;-)
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| To make the work readable ;-) |
So as you guys can see, it is very easy to create something new and often it also takes nearly no time. I hope you are not afraid to face this challenge, I'd really like to read in the comments how you got along with this and of course your beautiful poems.
See you tomorrow!
Yours,
AL
Tomorrows topic: "Building destruction"
