Skyrocket Your Creativity & Get Better Ideas: 7 Easy Ways
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
Did you know that the most successful people on the planet are also the most creative? Throughout the ages, time and time again, ordinary people from all walks of life who were able to come up with extraordinary ideas that they then acted upon, have risen to the top of every field across all disciplines, acquiring great fame, wealth, and influence.
Do you struggle with coming up with creative ideas? Do you feel that you're not a creative person? Would you like to learn how to become more creative? Welcome to Skyrocket Your Creativity and Get Better Ideas: 7 Easy Ways, the go-to course for learning how you can increase your creativity!
In today's word, ideas are often called "the currency of the 21st century." Find out in this mini course how to increase your "creative earning power" by increasing your ability to come up with more and better ideas. By learning how to become more creative, you'll also boost your ability to be more influential at work, in your artistic endeavors, and in your daily life.
In this sampler course you will learn proven methods for generating more and better ideas. Creativity is a muscle that EVERYONE has that can be grown and strengthened. This course will show you how with practical tips you can begin using immediately, even before you finish all the lessons.
Some of the creativity boosting techniques I discuss include:
Harnessing the power of your subconscious mind
Reverse psychology
Design thinking (An overview)
Quantity begets quality
List-making and Word Association
Creative Visualization
Creativity in Your Daily Life
I'm a university professor with 15 years of experience teaching offline and online to a diverse group of students from around the world. I use my custom teaching approach to turn complex information into something simple, memorable, easy-to-understand in as short amount of time as possible to ensure that you get the most important, relevant, and useful information that can be applied immediately to your art, work, and everyday life.
I'm a tenured Associate Professor of Digital Media and the Program Director of Film & Digital Media at The American University of Rome and a practicing award-winning multimedia artist. My most recent independently-produced film just won Best Animated Short at Cannes Short Film Festival thanks in part to the effectiveness of some of the creativity techniques taught in this course.
Empower yourself now by enrolling in this course and join our growing learning community and let's get started skyrocketing your creativity and boosting your influence at home and at work today.
Syllabus
- Hello and Welcome!
- Word Association and Listmaking
- Put Your Subconscious to Work: The Power of Dreams
- Quantity Begets Quality
- Reverse Psychology: NOT Trying to Think of an Idea
- Design Thinking: Introduction (*Find Resources in the Discussions Area)
- How to Take an Ordinary Day and Make It Extraordinary: Creativity In Daily Life
- Creative Visulazation and More Resources for Designing Your Life
- Extra: 5 Easy & Free Tools That Will Free Your Creative Soul
- Extra: Using a Sketchbook and Turning Stress Into Creativity
- Extra: Utilize Time to Make Better Designs -Case Study (In Photoshop)
- Bye and Thanks!
Taught by
Kristen Palana
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