Okay

It's okay. I'm fine :D

It's okay. I'm fine :)

It's okay. I'm fine.

Everything's gonna be alright.

It's okay :)





Okay, I lied . I'm (not) fine :(

Everything's gonna be alright (I hope)




It's okay. I'm fine :)
I believe it.

Book - How to Have Great Ideas (Part 2)

My boss bought a book and asked me to read it. I saw there are a lot of picture, so I thought it's a book about design, and I had no interest in it. One day, I had nothing to do (It's lie ~ I had many tasks but my brain stopped thinking haha, I needed a diversion) finally I opened this book: How to Have Great Ideas. Evidently, I found out that this book contains some real ways to be creative. Wew. It's 3 months after my boss bought this book, If I wasn't too lazy to read it, maybe I would be a creative person today. This book can be used as a practical handbook for unleashing creativity. But, It's never too late to learn something, so here the resume of this book:

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Creative thinking is the process of generating the ideas that make breakthroughs possible. These breakthroughs can lead to solutions to seemingly irresolvable problems, or can bring completely new things into existence. These guides to have creative thinking: (you can see no 1 - 6 here)

7. Value First Idea - There is a great temptation to reject all first ideas, feeling they have arrived too soon, but every so often the first idea is the perfect idea. Always consider your first idea, that impulsive response that just pops into your head.

This is the example from my experience
Problem: I created a seminar, but the audience that attended there were a bit ehmmm, few. hahaha.
First Idea: Ask the WBA (Wardah Beauty Agent) to invite their friends (min. 5 person) to attend this Seminar. We have 20 WBAs, so there will be (minimal) 100 aundiences.
Result: We had 110 audiences :D

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8. Voice Your Wildest Concept - A fear of derision or humiliation means many great ideas often go undsaid, sometimes it needs fancy job title or high status to feel confident enough to share your thinking, don't worry, just voice your wildest idea! Because we need the comment from media/competitor/anyone to make our idea better..

And hmmm I think I have no wildest concept, but gimme time, let me think about it, and i will write here asap :D

(it's not the wildest one, but I think it's wild enough :D)

I always want to try to be an industrial spy because when I was little I wanna become a detective :D So, I will join some communities of our competitors. Hehe hehe hehe.

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9. Act Like A Kid - Acting like a kid again can be immensely productive when setting out to generate ideas. Children dive unstoppably into activities with an enthusiasm rarely seen in adults.

If it's hard, play children's toy or go to playzone (Amazone, Timezone, Game Master, etc). I always automatically be like a kid :D

Here I am:

What great ideas did I get?

When I need to workout but too lazy to do it, just play a game like this :D

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10. Take Notice - Creative people are expert noticers. Get the habit of curiosity, and then you will find indeas will catch your eye. To see things afresh try taking different route to somewhere you often go, or travel by a different means, etc.

Project to train our "notice" skill:

Spot and collect the faces, animals, letterforms and nummbers that are accidentally created by wear, repair, time, decay, spillage, etc. Collect and record what you discover with cameraphone, camera, or a notebook.

Here's mine:
I think this "fanta and sprite" is like my country's flag, red and white :D hohoho.

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10. Visualize It - Visualizing idea by drawing it helps the quarter/half formed ideas becomes fully formed. You don't have to be good at art, just scribble, doodle, or scarwl. Visualizing helps share ideas with other too. Get it down so you don't let it down!

Project:
Practice visualizing by drawing things that are unseeable in the real world. Here what I made: The Brain of Mathematician look like: wkwkwkwk full of formulas :D

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11. Get Help - Find some collaborators. Working with others helps nurture and develop ideas. Get a consigliere!

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Previous: Book - How to Have Great Ideas (Part 1)

(I will update every time I've done the exercise of each section)

For more information and tips, buy and read the book :D

Book - How to Have Great Ideas (Part 1)

My boss bought a book and asked me to read it. I saw there are a lot of picture, so I thought it's a book about design, and I had no interest in it. One day, I had nothing to do (It's lie ~ I had many tasks but my brain stopped thinking haha, I needed a diversion) finally I opened this book: How to Have Great Ideas. Evidently, I found out that this book contains some real ways to be creative. Wew. It's 3 months after my boss bought this book, If I wasn't too lazy to read it, maybe I would be a creative person today. This book can be used as a practical handbook for unleashing creativity. But, It's never too late to learn something, so here the resume of this book:

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Creative thinking is the process of generating the ideas that make breakthroughs possible. These breakthroughs can lead to solutions to seemingly irresolvable problems, or can bring completely new things into existence. These guides to have creative thinking:

1. Exercise Your Imagination - You can ask your friend to draw something simple (eg. circle/square/etc) and you draw it to make it into something more meaningful-more complex (eg. people/galaxy/etc).

Here my imagination haha. First, I drew McDonald's Logo (the yellow M), then I drew a standing-flower-vase :D

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2. Be Playful - Go out to play and put your game-face on when you play. Beside that, you can challenge yourself to create something new from anything that seems useless (eg. make a picture frame from a used cardboard).

Here my creation. I made a comfortable chair (shofi's version) using scrap paper.

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3. Write Your Manifesto - A manifesto is a public declaration of the beliefs and objectives of an individual or a group, you can say it is like a motto, or mantra, or something like that. So, write a manifesto for yourself! Don't be default! Clarify and state your own creative standpoint! This is a manifesto of LEGO.

Here my manifesto because sometimes I am too lazy do something that I want, so mine is about "Just Do It".

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4. Question, Question, Question - See the problem as a puzzle, and use questions to gather as many pieces as possible by methodically establishing as many facts as you can. The 1st step is: Don't be afraid to ask . If you're afraid, writing down all the things you're afraid to ask and swapping them with other team members. The 2nd step is: Use questions to open up a problem.

Actually, before I read this book, my boss had asked me several times to write a question about self-development. And after I read this book, finally I understand why my boss asked me to do it and why I should ask often. Here some of my questions:

1. How can we define a strong character?
2. How to deal with praises?
3. How to make everyone happy?
4. Why do we have to look attractive?

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5. Keep it simple - Creativity is making the complicated simple, so simplify and personalize the problem, then simplify the solution. How to train this? You can try: (1) Read an article without read the the title, than simplify complex news items into as few words as possible. (2) Writer Ernest Hemingway famously laid down a challenge ti write a story in six words. Try it. (i give you this link as an example : http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ernest-hemingways-six-word-sequels )

Here's my seven words story:

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6. Just Get Started - You can begin by simply writing down your first thoughts. So, fill in the title of your latest project here:

Just get started on . . . . . . . .

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Next: Book - How to Have Great Ideas (Part 2)