Pink Portfolio Exercises

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The Pink Portfolio<br />Ideas stolen from <br />Daniel H. Pink<br />

PINK PORTFOLIO<br />Design<br />Story<br />Symphony<br />Empathy<br />Play<br />Meaning<br />

A Daniel Pink Exercise<br />Channel Your Annoyance<br />

“To be a designer is to be an agent of change” – CHAD’s Barbara C. Allen<br />“Design is a high-concept aptitude that is d...

Choose a household item that annoys you in some way.<br />In a group of 2 or 3, decide which item is most annoying<br />Fo...

2-3 sentences explaining what task(s) the product was intended to be used to complete<br />3-5 sentences explaining your p...

A (set of) drawing(s) of your new product<br />Additional additions<br />

A “Karimanifesto”<br />

Basics<br />Pick a profession that you’re interested in joining as an adult<br />Find one or two members of the community ...

Compile list of pieces of advice<br />Organize by Daily, Weekly, Monthly Pieces<br />Then organize in order of perceived (...

Put It on the Table<br />

Find an object that matters a lot to you or holds some special meaning AND find one that doesn’t matter a whole lot<br />...

When you look at or use this object, what does it make you think of? <br />The skill you need to use it? The person who ma...

Now complete the same task with the item that does not matter<br />BIG QUESTION:<br />WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?!?!?!<br />Aga...

PINK PORTFOLIO<br />Design<br />Story<br />Symphony<br />Empathy<br />Play<br />Meaning<br />

Mini-sagas<br />

A mini-saga is an extremely short story<br />Yours should be exactly 50 words. <br />50. No more. No fewer.<br />It shou...

Tape Recorded Story<br />

The Basics<br />Find a relative, friend, teacher or other person you come in regular contact with<br />Turn on a video or ...

Ask 10 questions<br />5 from http://tinyurl.com/scquests<br />5 of your own writing<br />Make sure video captures both you...

Opening Lines<br />

Go back through what you’ve read in the past year<br />If you’ve owned the books, find the marked sentences that you want(...

Choose one of the sentences that you’ve listed and base a story on it<br />Story should run a page or two typed<br />Your ...

You’ll write three stories:<br />One based on the sentence you chose from your list<br />One based on the sentence you dre...

PINK PORTFOLIO<br />Design<br />Story<br />Symphony<br />Empathy<br />Play<br />Meaning<br />

Beethoven’s 9th<br />Mozart’s No. 35<br />Haydn’s No. 94 in G Major<br />Listen to how everything works together<br />List...

Self-portrait<br />Portrait of a neighbor<br />Portrait of the field<br />You only get 5 lines<br />5-line Drawing<br />

Type a (school-appropriate) word that you find interesting into a search engine<br />Choose one of the first five websites...

Write a paragraph (6-8 sentences) summarizing the information that you learned about your initial topics<br />Consider:<br...

Like “Follow the Links,” but in a dictionary<br />Look up any noun, and continue looking up words from definitions until y...

Choose a problem from the list<br />In a group of 5 people, do the following to brainstorm solutions<br />One person in yo...

Go for quantity<br />Set a numerical goal (~30 would be great)<br />Encourage wild ideas<br />The more outlandish, the bet...

from:<br />Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind. New York: Riverhead, 2005.<br />All ideas stolen<br />

PINK PORTFOLIO<br />Design<br />Story<br />Symphony<br />Empathy<br />Play<br />Meaning<br />

Tests used to measure empathy and related qualities<br />To serve as an introduction to thinking about your own empathy le...

“Male” vs. “Female” brains<br />From Simon Baron-Cohen, 60-question instruments to determine the “gender” of your brain<br...

Pick a place to sit and listen to others’ conversations<br />e.g. Starbucks, Target, the library, your classroom, the lunc...

Eavesdropping cont’d.<br />Write date, time frame, and location in your Spirally<br />Note your considerations in your Spi...

Whose Life?<br />

Pair up with another classmate that you DON’T KNOW very well<br />Ask them about their lives and how they got to Honors Wo...

PINK PORTFOLIO<br />Design<br />Story<br />Symphony<br />Empathy<br />Play<br />Meaning<br />

Choose two or three of the cartoons from the set<br />Write a humorous caption about what’s going on in the cartoon<br />A...

Write a (school-appropriate) joke in your Spirally<br />Partner up with someone you don’t know well, and tell them the jok...

PINK PORTFOLIO<br />Design<br />Story<br />Symphony<br />Empathy<br />Play<br />Meaning<br />

Think of someone at West Hall who has been kind, generous, or helpful in a significant way<br />Student, teacher, support ...

In your Spirally, draw a T-Chart<br />Head one side “Wanted Life Changes” and the other side “Obstacles to Change”<br />At...

“Exchanging and for but can move you out of excuse-making mode and into problem-solving mode. It’s grammar’s way of sayin...

Sabbath: a time of rest (m-w.com)<br />Select one day a week and remove yourself from the average busyness <br />Like the ...

The mini-sabbath<br />Choose one common act that you commit every day<br />Walking into 5th period, going to lunch, waking...

In your Spirally, make a list of what is most important to you<br />Think about people, activities, values, etc.<br />Narr...

Once you’ve moved your priorities from the list to the calendars, CONSIDER:<br />How many hours can you assign to each of ...

Choose someone that matters a lot to you<br />Decide what kind of work they would want you to do, accomplish<br />Begin to...

“Live life now as if you’re living for the second time and<br />had acted wrongly the first time” (Pink, 244).<br />Think ...

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