Reflection in October 6th Lesson

On this day we didn't do much because this day was the last day of creative thinking lesson. But what I was excited about was I got to present my posters in front of the class. The presentation was about the SCAMPER and force connection. From everyone in my class, I was the only one who did the poster using photoshop. Because everything was well prepared, the presentation went pretty well and I actually made the entire class laughed. The posters I presented are on September 31st lesson reflection. After I presented my work, my classmates presented their work. When the class ended, it felt like something that's been going on for a very long time just ended. It didn't feel right. But what's over is over.

Empathy Video Response

In this rather short video, it only explains about people's problems. But, at the end of the video, it says "if you had the knowledge of another person's experiences, what they feel, would it change the way you respond to individuals?". It hits me like a train. That question is so powerful to me. Because in my life, I've had a lot of friends that look normal from the outside but they actually suffer a lot which made them not be able to do well at school. But if you could just position yourself in their position, maybe you can help them because at least you know how it feels. You could give them advice or maybe help them directly because every little help helps.

Analogical Thinking Video Response

This video is rather short unlike some of the other videos but the video contains a lot of stuff and it's very straight to the point. The video mainly focuses on 4 things: first, analogical thinking allows us to experience the interconnectedness of ideas, second is analogical thinking is a great way to learn difficult concepts more effectively, third analogical thinking is a skill that we can practice and be better at fro time to time, last is analogical thinking enhances our creative output. I think by practicing analogical thinking can give us more ways of being creative and solve problems which is a good thing to do.

Reflection on July 21st Lesson

This is the first week of Creative Thinking Lesson. On this week we didn't cover a lot of things because we did some administrative things instead. Although we didn't talk much and deep about creativity, Micky introduced us to a couple of things I found interesting. We talked about linking out senses to our awareness and how we should perceive design more carefully and in a deeper manner by examining it slowly because you can learn a lot more when you examine things and not only see them. But after all, it was not a boring class and we laughed a lot.

Isaac Mizrahi Video Response

Isaac Mizrahi is a fashion designer. In his TEDx talk video, he pointed out many things that very important to me. He said, "the ones that look more interesting are the one that looks mistaken or very surprising". When he said that, it blew my mind because my father once told me that most of his inspiration comes from old photographs and broken prints because normal prints and photographs are very normal and boring. Isaac Mizrahi also said that color motivates him a lot. The most interesting thing that he said was "you have to be slightly bored of everything”. and his personal quote “Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die”.

Shawn Achor Video Response

This video is about the happy secret to better work. In this video, Shawn explained a lot of things and pointed out some of the things that I found interesting. He said "normal is merely average". This is true because from my personal experience, being normal feels average and very stale. No wonder why people likes to say "I hate being normal". He also said that if we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average. This is very similar to the quote "you are what you eat”. So basically, if we study or learn more about something that’s been very mainstream for a long time, we will turn into a normal person as time goes by. But one of the most interesting things that he said was “I we can change the lens, not only we can change your happiness, we can change every single education and business outcome at the same time”.

Reflection on September 29th Lesson

What I learned on this day was empathy. Empathy is where we position ourselves in someone else's  situation to see how they feel. This is a very good technique to get creative because if we position ourselves in other people's perspective (for example blind people), we can create something that they can actually use despite their ability to do everyday tasks. We also learned about the SCAMPER technique which stands for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Rearrange. We used this technique and combine them with the empathy technique as our exercise.