This week, we are starting a unit on innovation and creativity. Whereas the first half of the semester is focused on identifying college level standards and getting in shape to meet those standards, the second half of the semester focuses more on how you can step outside of those boxes, distinguish yourself, and excel in your own unique way. Part of that requires you to learn how to think differently, to not simply do the same thing as everyone else. Your ability to distinguish yourself as an individual will be the quality that potential employers will be looking for just as much as noting that you fulfilled all of your requirements and got your degree. Blog A wraps up the first half of the semester, and Blog B begins the second half -- see below:
Blog A: Reflect on your midterm video assignment. First read over the assignment requirements. How well did you fulfill the requirements of topic, time limit, # of people interviewed, having a beginning, middle, and end, the finalizing details of title, name, getting it done on time, etc.? How well did the technology work on your video, allowing us to see and hear clearly, getting it posted on your blog, etc.? How well did you tell a story, keep us informed, catch our interest? What grade would you give yourself and why? What would you add or change if you had more time to work on it or could revise it?
Blog B: In her book The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp asks readers to write their "creative biography" using the following questions as prompts. Even if you don't see yourself as someone who regularly is engaged in a creative endeavor, we are all creative in some ways, so be creative in how you define your own creativity. (Creating shouldn't be limited to traditional arts like painting or writing; you can be a creative football player or creative with your wardrobe or creative in the way you think.)Choose a series of these questions and begin your own creative biography. You will continue this exercise next week, so don't feel that you need to answer all of the questions, but try to find related ones that can help you weave together a coherent blog post.
Your Creative Autobiography
1. What is the first creative moment you remember?
2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it?
3. What is the best idea you’ve ever had?
4. What made it great in your mind?
5. What is the dumbest idea?
6. What made it stupid?
7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea?
8. What is your creative ambition?
9. What are the obstacles to this ambition?
10. What are the vital steps to achieving this ambition?
11. How do you begin your day?
12. What are your habits? What patterns do you repeat?
13. Describe your first successful creative act.
14. Describe your second successful creative act.
15. Compare them.
16. What are your attitudes toward: money, power, praise, rivals, work, play?
17. Which artists do you admire most?
18. Why are they your role models?
19. What do you and your role models have in common?
20. Does anyone in your life regularly inspire you?
21. Who is your muse?
22. Define muse.
23. When confronted with superior intelligence or talent, how do you respond?
24. When faced with stupidity, hostility, intransigence, laziness, or indifference in others, how do you respond?
25. When faced with impending success or the threat of failure, how do you respond?
26. When you work, do you love the process or the result?
27. At what moments do you feel your reach exceeds your grasp?
28. What is your ideal creative activity?
29. What is your greatest fear?
30. What is the likelihood of either of the answers to the previous two questions happening?
31. Which of your answers would you most like to change?
32. What is your idea of mastery?
33.What is your greatest dream?
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