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IDEAS, Ideas, ideas

Though the Week Six class, I had approached the brainstorming

A brainstorming may not deliver the desired solution for specific issue, but it is very useful to improve the abilities include imaginative, innovative through creative thinking without personal judgement. 

Personally, through a typical brainstorming session brings me together into the creative process, which means I jump into creative thinking and focus on the quantity of Idea, not quality and also defer judgement. These elements help me to maximum creativity. By practicing brainstorming on a particular situation or basis, I feel I can unleash a torrent of ideas that will enable you to accomplish your goals faster than you ever believed possible by thinking outside the box

After the brainstorming session, each person in the group shared their unique ideas about the common question about It can be applied either in a situation as “problem” and “opportunity” I am confident that I can lead the brainstorming session because I always have a clean understanding what I want to achieve from brainstorming, I want to try to thinking outside the box to spark new ideas .  

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Creative problem solving

In the CPS activity, I think that the most challenge is how to select a “random word” and to write down couple new ideas which associate with this word. The challenge is random word push me to jump out and explore in different scope for new ideas. I have to increase the association between these random words.  Our minds have been trained to make sense of logic things, staffs. So this section helps me to beyond the normal pattern or way of thinking that I have been using in life.

Through the in-class activity, I realised that CPS is not just brainstorming the ideas, it requires people to work out ideas into actual resolutions. Furthermore, I am really impressed that our group did an excellent work, each team member made the contribution in project designing process. Brainstorming ideas as a whole team is more effective than an individual, collaboration teamwork combining unique perspective ideas and imaginations for each member.  This makes a wider version of ourselves. 

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Mind Mipping

Thought today’s class, I realised that Mind Mapping is a graphical tool that can incorporate words, images, numbers, and even colour to help me easily memory, to view a whole image or creative picture all at once.

To myself，a mindmap also provide a free association exercise. I just strat with a central idea, then add branches, curve lines and derive ideas which relate to the central idea. I designed a mindmap with “Co-op” as the main idea, I put “interview”, “Resume/Cover Letter”, “Preparation” as the main branch. When I completed,  the mindmap provides a systematic approach that keep track of the ideas about Co-op in my mind.

In real life, I use mindmaps especially when I'm stuck with some project plan or facing creating blocks (writing)  I figure out that infinitely more useful to just start making or doing whatever thing first come up with, and let the concept be a model for itself and develop as necessary. All this jacking off about "organising" an idea outside of its implementation, in this course’s experience, does nothing but get in a creative way. On the other hand, I realised that the Mind mapping cannot be until you’ve tried it out, so we need to try to apply deeper consideration of creative thinking.

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3 Major Cause of Creative Block

This is my second creative blog, today I am going to describe three major of creative block during my innovation journey, including self-doubt, fear and lack of motivation. I would like to emphasise on talking about the “self-doubt” element and how can I go through this creative block. Each time when I start to experience or design new things, I always doubt my own capacity and decision-making, am I on the right track?

In order to overcome this block, I get usually to encourage myself to embrace the unexpected and problems, no innovations can be perfect, but I can achieve better creative thinking and self-improvement if I insist on learning and thinking something new. On the other hand, I also try to change a different way to view the creative, self-doubt is a sign that I am doing something worthwhile. Even if it seems ridiculous but it will work for me.

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Hello, my name is Renjie, and this is my creative blog for the first week, today I am going to creative the Coca-Cola Chicken Wings, The approach of making this dish is generally consistent with the traditional method of BBQ wings. The only difference is it used a surprising ingredient: Coca-Cola as the majority source. It not looks pretty but tastes a tiny bit like Coke, and it not overwhelmingly sweet. I believe that Coca-Cola Chicken Wings is a good dish when paired with rice, noodle and salad. It is my first time to try to come out this dish. I did not follow the online instructions to prepare raw materials. Instead, I select some based on my personal preferences, and creative a unique dish by myself! 

From this activity, it allows me to create something from my own head, something creative can be seen, reached, loved and enjoyed. It makes me fell courage and fulfils to keep to creative passion naturally.  

Raw material:

1 bottle of cola

1/2 cup ketchup

chicken wings

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon of Chinese cooking wine

1 tablespoons canola oil