For creativity, borrow a 4-year old

Kids Describe a Perfect World to Koji the Illustrator

I happenned upon this series of videos in YouTube today and to me this very video shows the epitome of kids and creativity. And at the same time this article appeared in my email from Curiosity. Perfect timing.

One Unusual Way to Unblock Your Creativity: Borrow a 4-Year Old

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Be brave enough to live life creatively

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. 

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 

~ Ayn Rand

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. 

~ Alan Alda

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. 

~ Steve Jobs

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Input and Maximizer at play

I have completed delivering two modules of training at work and was brushing my next module when I thought I'd come up with an activity that involves creating a poster ad. 

That was when I remembered the last time I went searching for such ads. 

It was during the recent preaching seminar that I have attended. In one of the workshops led by Paul Barker on the applications part of a sermon, he gave us homework. We were to go look for advertisements that portray values, good or bad. 

And it was my Gallup theme strength #3 Input and #7 Maximizer that was at play. My Input pushed me to spend almost an hour if not two till past midnight to scour the internet to find these. And my Maximizer insisted that I only give up looking when I find those that are interesting and unique. 

Here they are:

I thought this Facebook one was cute but not carrying a very positive value but a reality that most of us are so deliberately addicted to social media. 

 

I felt this one minimizes the value of life.

 

At first I did not understand this ad but soon figured out that it's what you eat that causes a war in your stomach. So you would need an Eno to soothe it. The value? Glorifying violence. 

 

This was the one that we picked for our group to present as our chosen ad. Its tagline was "Right the Wrong" and I felt that it minimises sin. It's as easy as whitewashing it and it will be hidden, but it is still there. 

 

Don't you think these ads are brilliant? But not the imbedded values they portray though. 

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Yarn bombing, a worldwide movement

One of the three projects that I have started this year is to knit something. It is going slower than I thought it would, but I am not rushing it. My only regret is that I wish now I had bought better yarn, but I will have to stick to the 12 rolls I bought.

I came across this Ted Talk about knitting and art, which I thought was very interesting. The simple things that we do with our hands can have a chance to be creative. So don't give up the simple.



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