Analogical Thinking (Self portraits)

These are the objects that represents me. The fist represents that I know martial arts. The mute speaker represents silence, because I am not that talkative. The gun, the streeing wheel, the sword and the controller represents me as gamer, because I like war and racing games. The YouTube and 9gag icon represents me that I like social media. The holy cross represents catholic, because I am catholic. The streeing wheel has a different meaning, it also means I like to drive cars and enjoy it. The lightbulb represents me that I am imaginative. The rabbit represents me an animal lover. The soccer ball and the foot with a wing means i am energetic and athletics. Finally, the books means I like to read some novels. (If I got the Time...)

4 lessons in creativity

What I had understood from this video was the 4 lessons of creativity.
1)    Experience
2)    Challenge
3)    Limitation
4)    Loss

Experience

• must pay attention to the world around

Challenge

• some of their best work comes out of the parts of their lives that have been the most difficult
• must embrace challenge and change in lives

Limitation

• artists speak about how pushing upon the limits of what they can and can’t do helps them find their own voice 

Loss

• the hardest, the oldest and the most constant of human embraces
• see the world and take what we hope for while facing rejection, heartbreak, war, and death, and turning that into something that we can use to help funnel our creativity

What i think about this video is that people are all wrestle with experience and challenge, limits, and loss. Creativity is essential to all of us whether we’re scientists, parents, artists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or students. It doesn’t matter if we’re a writer or a painter or a sculptor or a photographer, but we can all use these lessons to help bring out whatever we need for our creativity to flourish.

Lateral Thinking

On Monday, 8th of September 2014, we as a group did a marshmallow challenge. We got 20 minutes to built a tallest tower or skyscraper with materials given; spaghetti sticks, tapes, strings with one marshmallow on top of the tower as the indicator. The group started to brainstorm fast, but I thought back through a real life construction of a modern building. every buildings have base, a wide area and perimeter which makes it to stand tough and doesn't collapse. At first, our team has some argument with a questions of what if. we made it but still not strong enough. Then we think a little bit physics stuff, and voila, the base is strong. One of my team tied each ends with strings so it supported. We won because we were the tallest of all. we got a bag of marshmallow, then shared it to the team and others too.

After the challenge, we were given 2 problems. In the same group, we had to come out with creative solutions. the lecturer told us that we could come out with illogical and silly ways, which made us to laugh at each others' ideas. We have fun time, shares ideas, mocking each other for the silliest ideas. The 1st problem is 'there is a hole in your fence', but the fence was the boundary between your garden and the neighbor's garden. But things get worse because the neighbor has chickens and they kept coming to your lawn and destroying your precious flowers. So find a way to prevent the flocks to intruded your property. The 2nd problem is about a bee enters your house and there are flowers in a vase near the window and a painting of a rose. but the problem is that the bee is more attracted to the painting instead the real ones, and the question is of course 'Why?'.

My team are okay, using some illogical or logical or silly answers. We didn't have a hard time on communication because our system is those who have a light bulb beside their heads, write them down immediately.

group members:

sabrina - nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com

hui ting - kewpiemaycry.blogspot.com

akshay - rakshay19.blogspot.com