Anyone can be creative, but some people are afraid to try. That's why we need exercises like these to make experimenting fun and low-risk.

1. creativity workshop
flex your thinking muscles

2. Neuroplasticity
means your
brain changes
over time.

3. mihaly
csikszentmihalyi
FLOW

4. Ground rules:
● Creativity demands vulnerability, which is why we practice
with a net. Failure is impossible.
● You are not your ideas. Not all your ideas are good, which
is why we have divergent and convergent thinking.
● Quantity over quality. You need to have a lot of ideas,
which is why we don’t edit while we ideate.

5. In ideation,
quantity is more
important than
quality.

6. fill as many
circles as you can.
In the next three minutes:

7. In collaboration,
your peers ideas
are gifts.

8. start every
sentence with:
“Thank you.”
Pair up, and in the next four minutes:

9. Build on ideas;
what do you love?

10. Constraints give life to ideas.
http://molly.is/experimenting/protobot/#en

11. use protobot to
come up with a
design to share
In the next five minutes:

12. How will this help you later?
● Creativity is a muscle. The parts of your brain that are
engaged in synthesis and creativity work when you work or
play.
● Creative energy is transferable. Being synthetic in your
thinking, and feeling successful builds momentum.
● You’re not afraid anymore. You’ve already put your pride
on the line, and you’re fine.

13. “Someone once asked Somerset
Maughham if he wrote on a
schedule or only when struck by
inspiration. "I write only when
inspiration strikes," he replied.
"Fortunately it strikes every
morning at nine o'clock sharp.”
Steven Pressfield, “War of Art”