1. A Crash Course on Creativity
Challenge Assumption #2 Marek Vanzura
As I said in the first part of this multiweek challenge, I am adressing problem of not getting enough
sleep due to hyperactivity of a brain. It means that the harder you want to sleep, the more active
your brain is. I guess everyone already met this problem. You go to bed, tired, and want to sleep as
soon as possible, but your mind wanders and you have to think about various things. And nothing
helps. My idea in backround of upcoming proposal of solutions is based on thought that the shift in
focus may help and the distraction of mind wandering must be aimed on some specific task which
starts to occupy mind and brain and consequently helps us to fall asleep.
Here is my list of possible solutions:
to count prime numbers
to count sequences
to invent new words
to devise plans for next day
to try spatial imagination – try to imagine very complex spatial object and rotate it in mind's eye
to move limbs in concrete orders (sequences)
to do push ups
to do squats
to clean up the table
to write computer program
to web browse
to chat
to watch a movie
to sing
to play an instrument
to play a computer game
to design things in cad
to dismantle pc and then again construct it
to solve the rubik's cube
to move furniture around a place

2. to wash floor
to lay down on a different place – floor, table, etc.
to stand on just one leg
to stand without any move
to rearrange all clothes in boxes
to count all clothes
to order all clothes according to its colours
to reverse all clothes inside out
to imagine map of the world and find out locations of concrete places
to find out what to do right now
to repeat the same sequence of words again and again
to try to reverse all words which come up to mind
to repeat words in concrete intervals
to imagine white dot and try to fix it and focus on it
to do sit ups
to draw something
to paint something
to make house from cards
to read a book
to learn first aid
to build the highest tower from things at home
to put a book on the head and try to balance for the longest possible time
to repair holes in socks
to embroid something
to reminisce what interesting saw last day, week, etc.
to reminisce what other people were wearing last day
to reminisce which hair color was the most common
to paint coloring book
to learn some language
to count watch ticking
to go for a run
to go for a walk

3. try to lick elbow
try to invent language plaything
try to play chess in mind
to wear up something very acrid
to play language soccer against myself
to get a bath
to water all flowers at home
to clean up all windows
to do homeworks
to call some friend
to call some absolutely unknown person
to sit down on a cactus
to take a bike and ride for a trip
to learn poker
to learn any game
to prepare food for next day
to go shopping
to do some garden work
to vacuum all carpets
to burn out all uselles things at home
to wash all glasses at home
to scream in no sleep agony
to take a car and ride for some trip
to make a snowman if snow is outside
to invent some new recipe
to establish new firm
to play football with cd's and dvd's
to sit in some very uncomfortable position
to write a letter to a girlfriend/boyfriend
to compose a poem
to eat
to complete plastic model

4. to have sex
to learn for upcoming exam
to wash all things at home
to play with a dog
to build a shelter for a dog
to reorganize things in refigerator
to translate video on TED
to think about ideas which excite me
to help anybody with anything
to memorize timetable of buses
to plan a trip
to invent some stories for a book
to look directly into the lighbulb
to build microscope or telescope from glasses
to watch tv
to play dough and make some very unusual forms