ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS:
Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us. In this lecture, we learn and practice creativity through a workshop titled "Improvised Lives".
Improvised lives are lives defined by a sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and spontaneity. Improvised living requires a playful mode of continuous learning, intense curiosity, embracing chaos and uncertainty, thinking and problem-solving beyond borders, experimenting and making mistakes, and acting as an entrepreneur. In this workshop, you have opportunities to experiment with automated writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining, and creating techniques.
In addition, we have about 20 mini-puzzles to solve. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from Oscars to celebrities, from vulnerability to humor, and from wellness to fashion. Finally, we have a mini-workshop on future generations (Alpha generation in particular), explore the biggest challenge facing them (climate emergency), and discuss the number one mental problem plaguing the youth of today (climate anxiety). After we give a nod to Greta Thunberg, we turn to another futurist and visionary who has set one of the most challenging and ambitious goals for himself: Elon Musk aspires to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050. We finish the lecture with a mini-workshop on "Life and Employability on Mars", where we learn surprising facts about this red planet, including the fact that creativity indeed will be a surviving skill on this planet.
Contents:
Review of Last Class: Asset Creation
Puzzles
IMPROVISED LIVES Workshop:
◦Exercise: Automated Creative Writing
◦Exercise: Automated Imagination (What If…)
◦Exercise: Automated Adventures and Fun (Lighten Up)
◦Exercise: Automated Imagination (Your Netflix Show)
◦Exercise: Automated Ideation (The Matrix Challenge)
◦Exercise: Moonshots and Asset Creation
◦Exercise: Automated Drawing and Doodling
Mini-Workshop: Future Generations & Climate Emergency
Mini-Workshop: Life and Employability in Mars (For fun & curiosity)
Key Takeaways
Lectures 15 and 16: Learning From The Masters, Storytelling, Worldbuilding, ...Fahri Karakas
Art Description/Synopsis:
In this class that is designed as collective performance art, we review some of the biggest names in the landscapes of entertainment, creativity, and business.
From space to magic, from basketball to fashion, from animation to computer games, from film music to architecture we have a trans-disciplinary tour of storytelling and creative careers.
We have a lot of puzzles. We have a series of exercises in asset creation and imagination.
In one of these exercises, you will have the opportunity to practice screenwriting, world-building, and storytelling.
However, the main actor in all of this experience (the connecting thread/anchor) is a squash.
Contents:
Review of Last Class
Puzzles: This week in review
Puzzles & Improv Adventures
Workshop: Heroes of Entertainment & Imagination
Exercise: Six Adventures and Six Challenges
Exercise: Screenwriting, World-Building, and Storytelling
Workshop: Creating Assets
Exercise: You are a Super-hero
Key Takeaways
Here are The Squash articles:
https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/7-brainstorming-exercises-and-7-lessons-inspired-by-a-yellow-squash-9f9e0df3f236
https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/what-a-yellow-squash-can-teach-you-about-creativity-3ea5e26cb28a
Podcast: Why and How to Build Your Own System of Asset CreationFahri Karakas
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- start thinking and acting like an entrepreneur
- not trust the system and establish your own system
- achieve your financial independence
- create multiple streams of passive income
- think creatively about your journey of entrepreneurship and asset creation.
Make sure you implement these strategies immediately.
Seminar 3 - Asset Creation and Self Directed Learning - 22 and 25 February ...Fahri Karakas
In this seminar, first we will look at how you will prepare your poster. You can create a Creative CV or a vision board. We will go over examples and methods of creating each.
Afterwards, we discuss how you can create your own assets. I present four universal principles to create your content empire on the Internet (Medium article).
Another article I share is: Create Your Own Creative Assets on the Internet (Medium article).
We will look at examples of asset creation and content creation.
Finally, you will work on your self-directed learning challenge and create your own SDL evidence table.
Lectures 15 and 16: Learning From The Masters, Storytelling, Worldbuilding, ...Fahri Karakas
Art Description/Synopsis:
In this class that is designed as collective performance art, we review some of the biggest names in the landscapes of entertainment, creativity, and business.
From space to magic, from basketball to fashion, from animation to computer games, from film music to architecture we have a trans-disciplinary tour of storytelling and creative careers.
We have a lot of puzzles. We have a series of exercises in asset creation and imagination.
In one of these exercises, you will have the opportunity to practice screenwriting, world-building, and storytelling.
However, the main actor in all of this experience (the connecting thread/anchor) is a squash.
Contents:
Review of Last Class
Puzzles: This week in review
Puzzles & Improv Adventures
Workshop: Heroes of Entertainment & Imagination
Exercise: Six Adventures and Six Challenges
Exercise: Screenwriting, World-Building, and Storytelling
Workshop: Creating Assets
Exercise: You are a Super-hero
Key Takeaways
Here are The Squash articles:
https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/7-brainstorming-exercises-and-7-lessons-inspired-by-a-yellow-squash-9f9e0df3f236
https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/what-a-yellow-squash-can-teach-you-about-creativity-3ea5e26cb28a
Podcast: Why and How to Build Your Own System of Asset CreationFahri Karakas
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- start thinking and acting like an entrepreneur
- not trust the system and establish your own system
- achieve your financial independence
- create multiple streams of passive income
- think creatively about your journey of entrepreneurship and asset creation.
Make sure you implement these strategies immediately.
Seminar 3 - Asset Creation and Self Directed Learning - 22 and 25 February ...Fahri Karakas
In this seminar, first we will look at how you will prepare your poster. You can create a Creative CV or a vision board. We will go over examples and methods of creating each.
Afterwards, we discuss how you can create your own assets. I present four universal principles to create your content empire on the Internet (Medium article).
Another article I share is: Create Your Own Creative Assets on the Internet (Medium article).
We will look at examples of asset creation and content creation.
Finally, you will work on your self-directed learning challenge and create your own SDL evidence table.
Free yourself from the “testing culture” and unleash your creative beast! From high-tech to no-tech, practical ways to get students, teachers, and parents to be active designers and tinkerers. (V2 from presentation at ISTE 2012)
Lectures 9 and 10 - The Eye-Opening Pessimist Workshop: Do Not Trust The Syst...Fahri Karakas
In this workshop, I have just told the truth, only the truth to my students. Here is the core message: You cannot trust the system. You cannot trust institutions. You need to create your own system to design your life and be independent. This means taking control of your own life, career, and money.
- The world is crazy and full of shit out there. The earlier you realize this, the less you will get disappointed.
- The world is changing fast, but our systems, governments, universities, and institutions are unfortunately slow in adapting to these changes. That is why you need to assume full responsibility for your own learning, development, and asset creation.
- Even though many things look very bleak, you can still survive and thrive in this environment. You need to think and act like an entrepreneur.
- You need to learn about personal finance and investments to achieve financial independence in your life. This involves creating multiple income streams, creating assets, and creating a path to financial freedom.
- A positive, fulfilling, and rich life starts with very small steps. You will start with small habits. These small habits will accrue and compound over time. Each small step matters.
Hackathon
£111 Exercise
Workshop: Self-Making Studio
Self-Making Exercise
Thinking Critically and Questioning the System
Things to Do – Reminders
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Slides): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see handout for more).
In this lecture, I changed the format and invited my class to learn form playing games and exercises to boost creativity. The students loved these games, and participated enthusiastically in this format of learning!
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Handout): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see slide deck too)
Seminar 10 - Wrapping up - This is Your Assets, Your Creativity, and Your L...Fahri Karakas
Design Your Life, Create Your Story, and Unleash Your Creativity
We are going through one of the most disruptive periods in history.
How do you design your life and increase the quality of your life in such disruptive times?
In this session, we address that question and provide you inspirational tools and examples to design and improve your life.
Below are contents and topics we cover:
- Disruptive changes after the pandemic lockdowns
- Controlling your life in the midst of disruption
- How to be productive and creative (poster exercises)
- How to prepare your creative and entrepreneurial career portfolio
- Designing Your Life Exercise - Workshop (exercise based on Stanford module)
- Mentoring yourself and improving your quality of life in various domains
- Make a list of all your wishes, visions, and aspirations
- How to be super-creative and super-productive
- Digital content creation
- Create 300 pieces of content
- Storytelling
- YouTube is the Future
- TikTok Strategies and Examples
- Content Houses: Sway House and Hype House
- Instagram Celebrities: Ronaldo
- Use Your Imagination: Hunger Games & Stranger Things
- Incredible Success Story of Beeple (Mike Winkelmann)
- Incredible Success Story of J. P. Metsavainio: Milky Way Mosaic
- Create Your Own Renaissance: Your Asset Creation Vision in 10 Years
- Further Visual Resources on Entrepreneurship, Money, and Assets
Almost all of these materials are fresh, which means I have learned them very recently. This approach makes the contents very multidisciplinary, engaging, and exciting.
Enjoy!
Learn from two dyslexic UX designers and one UX researcher as they journey through what it means to see the world from different perspectives and how to harness this power for design thinking. Dive into the dyslexic perspective and learn techniques to help you solve complex problems and unlock your creative potential.
The talk was given at Big (D)esign / September 2017
By:
Jennifer Keene-Moore
Anita Barraco Cator
Sophi Marass
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the biggest global award show in brand communications and an annual gathering of creative industry professionals. Landor is excited to have had the opportunity to share its insights at Cannes with some of the world’s top creative minds.
To break the rules, you gotta know the rulesHeidi Hackemer
Marketing and brand strategy is a craft, one that needs to be learned. Once you acquire expertise as a strategist, you personally have tremendous freedom and professionally add to the validity, energy and innovation in the field. But you gotta learn, and here's a few tips to push your own path forward.
International Visitor Leadership Program at Berea CollegeBerea College
This case study integrates the growing popularity of adventure tourism, ecotourism and heritage tourism and contains the potential for building an alternative economy, one that promises greater monetary returns for local residents, the preservation of rural traditions, and the protection of sensitive natural resources. Three traveler and tourist "personas" into Eastern Kentucky are demonstrated
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
@brianhousand
Cultivating Curiosity through Questioning
Humans are naturally curious beings, but as Sir Ken Robinson suggests, schools may have unintentionally squashed out the creativity and inquisitive nature of many of students. While ubiquitous digital devices provide us with the opportunity to find the answer to almost any question, many students struggle to find accurate information online. Now more than ever, we must teach our students to be critical consumers of the information that they encounter. Together we will explore and construct technology resources designed to engage students’ curiosity and learn ways to compose better questions for application and synthesis.
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS:
Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us. In this lecture, we learn and practice creativity through a workshop titled "Improvised Lives".
Improvised lives are lives defined by a sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and spontaneity. Improvised living requires a playful mode of continuous learning, intense curiosity, embracing chaos and uncertainty, thinking and problem solving beyond borders, experimenting and making mistakes, and acting as an entrepreneur. In this workshop, you have opportunities to experiment with automated writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining, and creating techniques.
In addition, we have about 20 mini-puzzles to solve. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from Oscars to celebrities, from vulnerability to humor, and from wellness to fashion. Finally, we have a mini-workshop on future generations (Alpha generation in particular), explore the biggest challenge facing them (climate emergency), and discuss the number one mental problem plaguing youth of today (climate anxiety). After we give a nod to Greta Thunberg, we turn to another futurist and visionary who has set one of the most challenging and ambitious goals for himself: Elon Musk aspires to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050. We finish the lecture with a mini-workshop on "Life and Employability on Mars", where we learn surprising facts about this red planet, including the fact that creativity indeed will be a surviving skill on this planet.
Robots and Machines Are Coming! How To Be Competitive and Adaptive In The Age...Fahri Karakas
Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us. In this lecture, we learn and practice creativity through a workshop titled "Improvised Lives".
Improvised lives are lives defined by a sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and spontaneity. Improvised living requires a playful mode of continuous learning, intense curiosity, embracing chaos and uncertainty, thinking and problem-solving beyond borders, experimenting and making mistakes, and acting as an entrepreneur. In this workshop, you have opportunities to experiment with automated writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining, and creating techniques.
In addition, we have about 20 mini-puzzles to solve. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from Oscars to celebrities, from vulnerability to humor, and from wellness to fashion. Finally, we have a mini-workshop on future generations (Alpha generation in particular), explore the biggest challenge facing them (climate emergency), and discuss the number one mental problem plaguing the youth of today (climate anxiety). After we give a nod to Greta Thunberg, we turn to another futurist and visionary who has set one of the most challenging and ambitious goals for himself: Elon Musk aspires to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050. We finish the lecture with a mini-workshop on "Life and Employability on Mars", where we learn surprising facts about this red planet, including the fact that creativity indeed will be a surviving skill on this planet.
https://medium.com/journal-of-curiosity-imagination-and-inspiration/improvised-lives-workshop-3b1df5bd7560?sk=949f6db678b49699f6eee922068ae4fe
Free yourself from the “testing culture” and unleash your creative beast! From high-tech to no-tech, practical ways to get students, teachers, and parents to be active designers and tinkerers. (V2 from presentation at ISTE 2012)
Lectures 9 and 10 - The Eye-Opening Pessimist Workshop: Do Not Trust The Syst...Fahri Karakas
In this workshop, I have just told the truth, only the truth to my students. Here is the core message: You cannot trust the system. You cannot trust institutions. You need to create your own system to design your life and be independent. This means taking control of your own life, career, and money.
- The world is crazy and full of shit out there. The earlier you realize this, the less you will get disappointed.
- The world is changing fast, but our systems, governments, universities, and institutions are unfortunately slow in adapting to these changes. That is why you need to assume full responsibility for your own learning, development, and asset creation.
- Even though many things look very bleak, you can still survive and thrive in this environment. You need to think and act like an entrepreneur.
- You need to learn about personal finance and investments to achieve financial independence in your life. This involves creating multiple income streams, creating assets, and creating a path to financial freedom.
- A positive, fulfilling, and rich life starts with very small steps. You will start with small habits. These small habits will accrue and compound over time. Each small step matters.
Hackathon
£111 Exercise
Workshop: Self-Making Studio
Self-Making Exercise
Thinking Critically and Questioning the System
Things to Do – Reminders
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Slides): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see handout for more).
In this lecture, I changed the format and invited my class to learn form playing games and exercises to boost creativity. The students loved these games, and participated enthusiastically in this format of learning!
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Handout): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see slide deck too)
Seminar 10 - Wrapping up - This is Your Assets, Your Creativity, and Your L...Fahri Karakas
Design Your Life, Create Your Story, and Unleash Your Creativity
We are going through one of the most disruptive periods in history.
How do you design your life and increase the quality of your life in such disruptive times?
In this session, we address that question and provide you inspirational tools and examples to design and improve your life.
Below are contents and topics we cover:
- Disruptive changes after the pandemic lockdowns
- Controlling your life in the midst of disruption
- How to be productive and creative (poster exercises)
- How to prepare your creative and entrepreneurial career portfolio
- Designing Your Life Exercise - Workshop (exercise based on Stanford module)
- Mentoring yourself and improving your quality of life in various domains
- Make a list of all your wishes, visions, and aspirations
- How to be super-creative and super-productive
- Digital content creation
- Create 300 pieces of content
- Storytelling
- YouTube is the Future
- TikTok Strategies and Examples
- Content Houses: Sway House and Hype House
- Instagram Celebrities: Ronaldo
- Use Your Imagination: Hunger Games & Stranger Things
- Incredible Success Story of Beeple (Mike Winkelmann)
- Incredible Success Story of J. P. Metsavainio: Milky Way Mosaic
- Create Your Own Renaissance: Your Asset Creation Vision in 10 Years
- Further Visual Resources on Entrepreneurship, Money, and Assets
Almost all of these materials are fresh, which means I have learned them very recently. This approach makes the contents very multidisciplinary, engaging, and exciting.
Enjoy!
Learn from two dyslexic UX designers and one UX researcher as they journey through what it means to see the world from different perspectives and how to harness this power for design thinking. Dive into the dyslexic perspective and learn techniques to help you solve complex problems and unlock your creative potential.
The talk was given at Big (D)esign / September 2017
By:
Jennifer Keene-Moore
Anita Barraco Cator
Sophi Marass
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the biggest global award show in brand communications and an annual gathering of creative industry professionals. Landor is excited to have had the opportunity to share its insights at Cannes with some of the world’s top creative minds.
To break the rules, you gotta know the rulesHeidi Hackemer
Marketing and brand strategy is a craft, one that needs to be learned. Once you acquire expertise as a strategist, you personally have tremendous freedom and professionally add to the validity, energy and innovation in the field. But you gotta learn, and here's a few tips to push your own path forward.
International Visitor Leadership Program at Berea CollegeBerea College
This case study integrates the growing popularity of adventure tourism, ecotourism and heritage tourism and contains the potential for building an alternative economy, one that promises greater monetary returns for local residents, the preservation of rural traditions, and the protection of sensitive natural resources. Three traveler and tourist "personas" into Eastern Kentucky are demonstrated
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
@brianhousand
Cultivating Curiosity through Questioning
Humans are naturally curious beings, but as Sir Ken Robinson suggests, schools may have unintentionally squashed out the creativity and inquisitive nature of many of students. While ubiquitous digital devices provide us with the opportunity to find the answer to almost any question, many students struggle to find accurate information online. Now more than ever, we must teach our students to be critical consumers of the information that they encounter. Together we will explore and construct technology resources designed to engage students’ curiosity and learn ways to compose better questions for application and synthesis.
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS:
Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us. In this lecture, we learn and practice creativity through a workshop titled "Improvised Lives".
Improvised lives are lives defined by a sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and spontaneity. Improvised living requires a playful mode of continuous learning, intense curiosity, embracing chaos and uncertainty, thinking and problem solving beyond borders, experimenting and making mistakes, and acting as an entrepreneur. In this workshop, you have opportunities to experiment with automated writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining, and creating techniques.
In addition, we have about 20 mini-puzzles to solve. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from Oscars to celebrities, from vulnerability to humor, and from wellness to fashion. Finally, we have a mini-workshop on future generations (Alpha generation in particular), explore the biggest challenge facing them (climate emergency), and discuss the number one mental problem plaguing youth of today (climate anxiety). After we give a nod to Greta Thunberg, we turn to another futurist and visionary who has set one of the most challenging and ambitious goals for himself: Elon Musk aspires to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050. We finish the lecture with a mini-workshop on "Life and Employability on Mars", where we learn surprising facts about this red planet, including the fact that creativity indeed will be a surviving skill on this planet.
Robots and Machines Are Coming! How To Be Competitive and Adaptive In The Age...Fahri Karakas
Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us. In this lecture, we learn and practice creativity through a workshop titled "Improvised Lives".
Improvised lives are lives defined by a sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and spontaneity. Improvised living requires a playful mode of continuous learning, intense curiosity, embracing chaos and uncertainty, thinking and problem-solving beyond borders, experimenting and making mistakes, and acting as an entrepreneur. In this workshop, you have opportunities to experiment with automated writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining, and creating techniques.
In addition, we have about 20 mini-puzzles to solve. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from Oscars to celebrities, from vulnerability to humor, and from wellness to fashion. Finally, we have a mini-workshop on future generations (Alpha generation in particular), explore the biggest challenge facing them (climate emergency), and discuss the number one mental problem plaguing the youth of today (climate anxiety). After we give a nod to Greta Thunberg, we turn to another futurist and visionary who has set one of the most challenging and ambitious goals for himself: Elon Musk aspires to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050. We finish the lecture with a mini-workshop on "Life and Employability on Mars", where we learn surprising facts about this red planet, including the fact that creativity indeed will be a surviving skill on this planet.
https://medium.com/journal-of-curiosity-imagination-and-inspiration/improvised-lives-workshop-3b1df5bd7560?sk=949f6db678b49699f6eee922068ae4fe
I am interested in developing executive training or professional development workshops that function as 'surprise' and 'mystery' tours and collective performance art.
I have brought a squash to the class last Friday (as a form of improvisation and surprise).
In particular, students like puzzles (the student who gets the answer first gets a dark chocolate).
If you view it as a slideshow and try to guess the answers to the puzzles, then the experience might be quite fun:)
You can find the description of this class below.
In this class that is designed as a collective performance art, we review some of the biggest names in the landscape of entertainment, creativity, and business. From space to magic, from basketball to fashion, from animation to computer games, from film music to architecture we have a trans-disciplinary tour of storytelling and creative careers. We have a series of exercises in asset creation and imagination. We have a lot of puzzles. We dream about the university of the future. However, the main actor in all of this experience (the connecting thread/anchor) is a squash.
Lectures 19 and 20: The Boring Lecture - Valuable Life Strategies for Escapin...Fahri Karakas
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: "THE BORING LECTURE"
“Curiosity and creativity are the new productivity.”
Dr. Fahri Karakas
Despite the abundance of entertainment media at the touch of our fingertips, we easily feel bored these days and we desperately want to escape from our mundane lives. Boredom strikes us particularly hard when we feel trapped by endless tasks, responsibilities, habits, and routines in our lives. We want to escape and immerse ourselves in new worlds – perhaps worlds that are more colorful, exciting, rich, and novel. We seek adventures to save us from all the baggage, drudgery, stress, and anxiety that surrounds us.
‘The Boring Lecture’ invites you to new possibilities and exciting life strategies to escape from boredom. It takes a bit of imagination, courage, and experimentation to get out of boredom (the rut). We will try to escape monotony and mediocrity through embracing uncertainty, curiosity, and wonder. Towards this goal, we take on a cross-disciplinary tour and explore geeks, mavericks, eccentric artists, weirdoes, crazy entrepreneurs, inventors, dreamers, mind-expanding authors, and insane filmmakers. As we travel from the sublime to the ridiculous, we will expand our sense of what is possible. Asteroids, stars, black holes, computer games, books, and movies will accompany us on our wonderful journey.
We will travel through our body, our mind, our sleep, and our dreams. We will try to solve two dozens of mini-puzzles and we will experiment with a dozen mini-learning adventures. We will explore future disruptive innovations and potential trillionaire sectors. We will learn about the new gold rush: The space economy. Finally, we will fly through space and land on Mars. We will learn about the Mars Generation and imagine what daily life might look like on the red planet.
This will be a wild tour – far from boring - are you ready?
Contents:
Review of Last Class
Puzzles
The Boring Lecture:
◦Exercise: Create your Reading Challenge
◦Exercise: Create your own YouTube Channel
◦Exercise: Create your own Manifesto
◦Exercise: Create your own Turnip Prize rubbish art entry
◦Exercise: Creative writing – complete the story
◦Exercise: Seeing with 100 Eyes
◦Exercise: Discuss your Sleep and Dreams
◦Exercise: Imagine disruptive innovations and sectors
◦Exercise: Imagine flying across the universe + daily life on Mars
Mini-Workshop: MIND, BODY, and SLEEP
Mini-Workshop: SPACE and MARS
Key Takeaways
The Boring Lecture: Mars, Curiosity, Creativity, and Our FutureFahri Karakas
Despite the abundance of entertainment media at the touch of our fingertips, we easily feel bored these days and we desperately want to escape from our mundane lives.
Boredom strikes us particularly hard when we feel trapped by endless tasks, responsibilities, habits, and routines in our lives. We want to escape and immerse ourselves in new worlds – perhaps worlds that are more colorful, exciting, rich, and novel.
We seek adventures to save us from all the baggage, drudgery, stress, and anxiety that surrounds us.
‘The Boring Lecture’ invites you to new possibilities and exciting life strategies to escape from boredom. It takes a bit of imagination, courage, and experimentation to get out of boredom (the rut). We will try to escape monotony and mediocrity through embracing uncertainty, curiosity, and wonder.
Towards this goal, we take on a cross-disciplinary tour and explore geeks, mavericks, eccentric artists, weirdoes, crazy entrepreneurs, inventors, dreamers, mind-expanding authors, and insane filmmakers. As we travel from the sublime to the ridiculous, we will expand our sense of what is possible.
Asteroids, stars, black holes, computer games, books, and movies will accompany us on our wonderful journey.
We will travel through our body, our mind, our sleep, and our dreams. We will try to solve two dozens of mini-puzzles and we will experiment with a dozen of mini-learning adventures.
We will explore future disruptive innovations and potential trillionaire sectors.
We will learn about the new gold rush: The space economy. Finally, we will fly through space and land on Mars.
We will learn about the Mars Generation and imagine what daily life might look like at the red planet.
The Boring Lecture:
◦Exercise: Create your Reading Challenge
◦Exercise: Create your own YouTube Channel
◦Exercise: Create your own Manifesto
◦Exercise: Creative writing – complete the story
◦Exercise: Imagine disruptive innovations and sectors
◦Exercise: Imagine flying across the universe + daily life on Mars
}Mini-Workshop: MARS
How do you balance life, family, work and an entrepreneurial spirit? An opportunity for women to discover the power of their personal story for shaping a unique business. Women will learn to reflect on how life challenges can be shaped to empower their future and to envision a holistic lifestyle balancing self, family, career and community. Women interested in participating in this workshop should apply here: http://tinyurl.com/7t5js75
We all have the capability to be innovative. The challenge is how to channel the creativity of both individuals and organisations to deliver exceptional fundraising results. This presentation shares innovation inspiration from the charity and corporate sectors to help you develop a personal attitude for innovation and develop ideas for your fundraising.
Need and Importance of Creativity, how creativity helps to overcome challenges.Various methods that can be used to foster your creativity, and some novel ways people have adopted to enhance their creativity pool.
Lectures 15 and 16 - Escape into the Metaverse - 26 April 2022.pptxFahri Karakas
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: "THE BORING LECTURE"
“Curiosity and creativity are the new productivity.”
Despite the abundance of entertainment media at the touch of our fingertips, we easily feel bored these days and we desperately want to escape from our mundane lives. Boredom strikes us particularly hard when we feel trapped by endless tasks, responsibilities, habits, and routines in our lives. We want to escape and immerse ourselves in new worlds – perhaps worlds that are more colorful, exciting, rich, and novel. We seek adventures to save us from all the baggage, drudgery, stress, and anxiety that surrounds us.
‘The Boring Lecture’ invites you to new possibilities and exciting life strategies to escape from boredom. It takes a bit of imagination, courage, and experimentation to get out of boredom (the rut). We will try to escape monotony and mediocrity through embracing uncertainty, curiosity, and wonder.
Towards this goal, we take on a cross-disciplinary tour and explore geeks, mavericks, eccentric artists, weirdoes, crazy entrepreneurs, inventors, dreamers, mind-expanding authors, and insane filmmakers.
As we travel from the sublime to the ridiculous, we will expand our sense of what is possible. Asteroids, stars, black holes, computer games, books, movies, and of course, the Metaverse will accompany us on our wonderful journey.
We will travel through our body, our mind, our sleep, and our dreams. We will try to solve two dozens of mini-puzzles and we will experiment with a dozen of mini-learning adventures. We will explore future disruptive innovations and potential trillionaire sectors. We will learn about the new gold rush: The space economy.
Finally, we will fly through space and land on Mars. We will learn about the Mars Generation and imagine what daily life might look like at the red planet.
This will be a wild tour – far from boring - are you ready?
Critical thinking relates to how we make decisions and use our judgement. As a leader it is also about how we take action. Critical thinking involves many components. In this training we will address a few of them.
Similar to Lectures 17 and 18: Improvised Lives Workshop: Automated Writing, Drawing, and Creating - 27 November 2020 (20)
Global Zeitgeist May 2024: 3 Body Problem, GPT-4o, Investing, Creativity, Sto...Fahri Karakas
This is a global tour of culture, innovation, technology, and business.
Open AI has introduced GPT-4o and we are much closer to AGI. Her movie became real!
3 Body Problem - why is it interesting? How did I use it for creative storytelling? How can you us storytelling for asset creation?
MetGala was dystopian, like Hunger Games. What happened? Why are celebrities getting blocked?
How can you invest in Nasdaq and AI stocks?
How can you develop entrepreneurial thinking skills?
How To Deal With Disruption and How To Thrive In A Disruptive AgeFahri Karakas
We live in interesting and accelerated times. No professional today, whether in the public or private sector, can afford to be unaware of the pace of changes surrounding them. The pace of business change happening around us is relentless. The global forces of competition, innovation, and new technologies are creating new markets while eliminating others.
Multidimensional technological forces involving automation, 3D printing, augmented reality, machine learning, Industry 4.0, internet of things, and blockchain are rapidly transforming the future of work, organizations, and jobs.
We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. Developments in machine learning, robotics, nanotech, biotech, and 3D printing are all building on and amplifying one another. Technology is disruptive and it keeps transforming workplaces, business practices, and work processes. Companies are trying hard to survive — the only way to survive is to adapt, change, and innovate fast.
Companies are hungrier for smart ideas and innovations than ever before because they know they will go extinct unless they learn, improve, evolve, accelerate, and create constantly.
89% of Fortune 500 companies from 1955 are not on the list in 2014. The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 was 67 years old in the 1920s. Right now this age is 15 years only and it keeps going down. In 2028, 40% of all S&P 500 companies are expected to disappear from this list. Similarly, 75% of S&P 500 firms are estimated to be replaced within 15 years.
In 1996, Kodak had nearly 150 thousand employees and $28 billion market cap. In 2008, the whole market was gone. The invention of digital cameras eliminated traditional camera businesses. A company that is not trying to disrupt itself is destined to be disrupted.
We are experiencing a digital revolution and the industrial paradigm is over. Mass production is becoming obsolete and 3D printers are replacing factories. Companies work in virtual networks and remote work is the order of the day.
Products are bought on demand and they are customized by default. We do not need huge scales of economy, organization charts, hierarchies, factories, standardized exams, or large production floors anymore.
We do not need cable TV, mass-market, and broadcast advertising. We are now experiencing a borderless, democratized, digital world where each individual can have a huge impact.
We can now create our own game in this world. We can design games, create our own blogs or podcasts or YouTube channel or raise funds on Kickstarter. We can write a book and explain ourselves to the world. We can create fresh and exciting digital products (training, courses, etc.) We live in a world where ideas can change people’s lives. This means all of us can create our own game.
It is impossible to imagine that the skills needed at work will remain the same in the new decade. The world is changing fast and we need to learn, re-invent, and disrupt ourselves every day.
YOU in a Changing World: Creativity and Personal Development in the age of AIFahri Karakas
This lecture gives an overall perspective about personal development and creativity for individuals interested in creating their careers in our fast-paced era.
Introductions
Introduction to the module
Module Objectives
Module Structure and Assignments
Introduction to Career Management: Careers of 21st century
Self-Making and Creativity
New perspectives on careers and employability
New technologies and acceleration
Your career and new technologies
How can you learn from inspirational careers and outstanding success stories?
Ferran Adria - Michelin Star Chef
Prof. Brian Cox - Professor in Physics
Elon Musk - Entrepreneur, billionnaire
Marina Abramovic - Performance artist
https://medium.com/journal-of-curiosity-imagination-and-inspiration/how-can-you-learn-from-inspirational-careers-and-outstanding-success-stories-d149a0eeba00?sk=f8aa3299aee48d0f1287e4ba9ee0ef26
2030'lara Hazırlanmak- Hayal Gücü, Yapay Zeka, Gelecek Meslekler ve Sen.pptxFahri Karakas
Bugün Bi Nevi Akademi için verdiğim eğitimin sunumu
'2030'lara Hazırlanmak: Hayal Gücü, Yapay Zeka, Gelecek Meslekler ve Sen'
Özellikle GPT'yi ve yapay zekayı nasıl kullanacağınızı merak ediyorsanız kaçırmayın.
Lectures 21 and 22 - Wrapping Up the Semester.pptxFahri Karakas
I go over my journey of asset creation this semester.
I have made progress on my 3 books this semester and share you the contents of these 3 books:
Squash Book
99 Creative Adventures Book
The Cube Book
I also provide a review of our topics:
The Rise of China
Project Guidance
Creativity Workshop
Adventures in Asset Creation
A4 Stationery Innovations
In this workshop, I introduce "The Cube".
I invented "The Cube" last night and I share it the first time with the world in this video.
You will witness the first iteration of my invention and work on the exercises to explore yourself and create your future.
I created this idea last night and turned into slides. I created six journeys to help individual creativity and success.
I first created six metaphors for the journeys:
The Ocean: Your Strengths
The River: Your Interests
The Jungle: Your Contributions
The Cottage: Your Values
The Garden: Your Assets
The Mountain: Your Future Self
After creating the slides, I created the doodle poster.
I also created a physical cube that represents my vision.
This cube will be marketed as a stationery product or innovation.
It will be sold as a poster, and you can turn it into a cube.
I have also created a preliminary video that features the cube. You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDNhO...
For the first time ever, you will experience the journey of "THE CUBE" in this video.
Please follow the steps. Get a notebook and pencil.
Mini-Journey 1: Discover Your Strengths
THE OCEAN
*Imagine that you are delving into a giant ocean. Imagine that you can breathe under water.
*You can swim, walk, and explore everything under water. You are in your zone of genius.
*You come across a treasure chest. You open it. What do you find inside this chest? Make a list of all the things you find there.
*This treasure chest represents YOUR BEST STRENGTHS.
*Make a long list of your best:
-Talents
-Skills
-Strengths
-Gifts
-Expertise and knowledge
Mini-Journey 2: Identify What Excites You
THE RIVER
*Imagine that you are now rafting along a fast- streaming river.
*You are an amazing rafter, and you are rocking it. Everything is flowing well. You have achieved momentum in your activities.
*You LOVE what you are doing. You leave a piece of yourself (your soul, creativity, or love) in what you do. Greeks call this MERAKI, and Turks call it MERAK
*Your raft represent your CHOPs (curiosities, hobbies, obsessions, and passions).
*Make a long list of your CHOPS now:
-Curiosities
-Hobbies
-Obsessions
-Passions
Mini-Journey 3: Figure Out Your Contributions
THE JUNGLE
*Imagine that you have now entered a tropical forest.
*It is a jungle out there – there is a lot of risk and uncertainty. This is a world full of wicked problems and complex challenges.
*You do not know what you will encounter in this journey. Nevertheless, you continue walking and exploring. You intend to carve your own path. You will make your own mark in the jungle.
*You carry a shovel and an axe. These are your tools/toolkits.
*Think about all your projects (i.e., your contribution, value creation, and problem solving).
*Make a long list of your projects, solutions, systems, models, innovations, etc.
-Which problems will you address and solve?
-How will you create and add value?
-What will be
From the Metaverse to NFTs, from blockchain to GPT-3, from YOLO economy to crowdfunding, we witness a Cambrian explosion of intelligence and accelerated innovation. The world is changing too fast and our educational systems are stuck in the past. How can we design customized learning journeys that celebrate the unique talents and passions of our students? How can we inspire our students to unleash their creativity and create their own assets? I decided to wear four new hats of an entrepreneur, an artist, a futurist, and a content creator. I aim to enable learning moments driven by curiosity, excitement, and fun. I aim to share a glimpse of my own journey in this workshop.
Inspirational Exercises for Your Career and Personal BrandFahri Karakas
In this seminar, we have a couple of activities aimed at improving your employability and personal brand.
First, we discuss your job application portfolio.
Second, we prepare our benchmarking table. In this exercise, you learn about brands at multiple levels (country brands, company brands, and individual brands). You choose 3 countries, 4 companies, and 4 individuals. You reflect on their success stories and brand power: What can you learn from these brands? How can you learn further? You create lessons and inspiration from these brands for your career.
Third, you create a business model canvas to create your own creative assets. You might use this activity to plan your asset creation strategies, such as creating your own YouTube channel, podcast, or Medium blog.
Fourth, you create a personal branding canvas to improve your employability. We go over a sample personal branding canvas exercise to illustrate how you can position yourself and your brand for the companies that you are applying for.
Best luck in your job applications.
Designing Your Future: Creative and Reflective Exercises for Your CareerFahri Karakas
In this presentation, I present a lot of exercises and resources to improve your employability and creativity.
Check out the resources and article links I provide below.
I am sharing all of the articles and resources below, as I think each of them will add value to your personal and professional life and improve your creativity and employability.
You will do two exercises in this workshop. You can watch the videos, read the accompanying Medium articles, and complete these activities yourself.
Flower Exercise
The first one: You will complete the Flower Exercise from the book 'What Color is Your Parachute' which will help you craft and design your ideal career.
https://medium.com/an-idea/what-does-your-dream-job-look-like-be48647edfc5?sk=c3fb82c070ac40f7c047a85fe3c3a9a6
Choose Your Own Option Exercise
The second one: You will choose one activity that you wish to do. There are 6 activities to choose from:
1) Create your own personal logo.
2) Coach yourself for the upcoming 12 months.
3) Choose your role models and learn from them.
4) Create a system for tracking your job applications, firms, and positions.
5) Create a SWOT analysis of yourself in the job market and reflect on your employability.
6) Create your own Netflix show - imagine wildly.
You can try any of these activities as they will help you tremendously in designing your life and your career after graduation. These activities will help you create a better self.
Below is the article guide:
https://medium.com/an-idea/six-personal-development-and-creativity-exercises-to-up-your-game-5fa1ce7275e7?sk=2d76b898a53d4ef732486a6b0cd3d372
In addition, I want you to focus on your asset creation journey.
Use your asset creation project to achieve your financial independence and to unleash your creativity,
I have written some articles to inspire you - check them out:
Create Your Own Creative Assets on the Internet:
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/create-your-own-creative-assets-on-the-internet-74af0e289dcd?sk=f019a56bfac1c6706032fd10f4487a74
Invest in Your Medium Content Shop:
https://2madness.com/invest-in-your-medium-content-shop-fef0cc64a393?sk=b6dc357aa52e7ff99f0b866daf5ea05b
Four Universal Principles to Create Your Content Empire:
https://medium.com/swlh/four-universal-principles-to-create-your-content-empire-1c0d7db9481e?sk=f5c94423fe81e53061b83ea639d72601
Do Not Trust the System, Establish Your Own SystemFahri Karakas
In this workshop, I have just told the truth, only the truth to my students. Here is the core message:
You cannot trust the system. You cannot trust institutions. You need to create your own system to design your life and be independent. This means taking control of your own life, career, and money.
The world is crazy and full of shit out there. The earlier you realize this, the less you will get disappointed.
The world is changing fast, but our systems, governments, universities, and institutions are unfortunately slow in adapting to these changes. That is why you need to assume full responsibility for your own learning, development, and asset creation.
Even though many things look very bleak, you can still survive and thrive in this environment. You need to think and act like an entrepreneur.
You need to learn about personal finance and investments to achieve financial independence in your life. This involves creating multiple income streams, creating assets, and creating a path to financial freedom.
The lecture includes the following contents:
The Eye-Opening Pessimist Workshop: Thinking Critically and Questioning the System
Disrupting Education and University of the Future
Award-Winning Documentaries
£111 Exercise, Personal Finance, and Compounding
Crowdfunding Platforms and Kickstarter Exercise
Workshop: Self-Making Studio
Turning £5 to£5000 Exercise
This composite lecture addresses the following questions:
Can we trust the global system? Can we trust capitalism? Can we trust corporations? (The Answer is: No)
Can we trust our educational systems? (No)
How can we build and design educational systems and universities of the future?
Why is it critical to question the system and everything in it?
How can we develop our own independence and power in a world or a system that cannot be trusted?
Why is personal finance the most important ingredient in achieving your independence?
How can you achieve financial freedom in your life?
How can you think and act like an entrepreneur? Where do you start if you have fresh and exciting ideas you want to bring to the world?
Why is compounding indispensable for achieving long term success, richness, freedom, and contribution?
The overall thread that connects this lecture is to question the systems that you find yourself embedded into, whether these might be economic, social, educational, or organizational systems.
You need to question everything so that you can create your own independent thinking, agency, and independence in your life.
A multidisciplinary visual tour that includes videos, slides, exercises, articles, and suggestions on how to achieve this.
https://medium.com/an-idea/do-not-trust-the-system-establish-your-own-system-34b390fc23dc?sk=1c9451b34ef1871920d671b74aabdfb3
How To Prepare Your Career Portfolio for Your FutureFahri Karakas
We are kickstarting our seminar series with a fascinating set of exercises and resources to unleash your imagination.
The first task of this module is to unleash your imagination and use it wildly.
Every one of us is creative. We are born creative. We need to reclaim our own creativity.
These exercises and resources will help you to do this.
As you start working on your portfolio, you will also start a new journey of self-discovery, creativity, and asset creation.
In this journey, you are only competing with yourself.
You need to find your own path in this life and this module will help you to do that.
Enjoy!
Welcome to Seminar 2.
In this seminar, you will be working on two seminar activities:
- Seminar 1 Activity: Top 10 Employable Skills Evidence Table
- Seminar 2 Activity: Self Directed Learning Evidence Table
In addition, at home, you will go over the CV and Cover Letter Workshop. This is a self-guided workshop you will finish on your own. After going over these slides, please finish your own CV and Cover Letter
Make sure you copy and paste your job advertisement at the top of your portfolio. Then add your CV and Cover Letter. Make sure both CV and Cover letter demonstrate good evidence of fit with the job ad. This involves matching the job requirements one by one. Show evidence of fit rigorously.
I have written the following article to help your employability during these post-pandemic times - please make sure you read it:
15 smart strategies to navigate the economic depression:
You face a very tough job market now — but you can still thrive
https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/you-face-a-very-tough-job-market-now-but-you-can-still-thrive-2277bbc99660?sk=13fdd31c3d14a3f485d025abd53f36dd
Zeitgeist August and September 2021 updatedFahri Karakas
I prepared this presentation for a YouTube special I have created titled "Zeitgeist".
Zeitgeist means the defining spirit or mood of a particular period.
In this monthly program, we review what happened in the world during the past month.
In this presentation, I have brought together the significant moments and events of two months: August and September 2021.
We cover areas including technology innovations, NFTs, metaverse, artificial intelligence, the TikTok algorithm, robots, blockchain, and more.
We also cover world issues including climate change, Taliban,
In the culture section: Squid Game craze conquers the world.
In Turkey: Economic crisis, Z generation, TikTok politics, etc.
Plus: TikTok trends, news, technology, culture, TV, and social media.
The program is narrated in Turkish. However, the slides are in English.
The video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALu0ORwNWA
A similar one I prepared for January 2021 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNzn6n0n6Y
February 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQK6OVAhxU
March 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5todG0fI4
And April 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SG1832kNM
Zeitgeist May 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBiuj7K8FXo
Zeitgeist June 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5BAFWs8ps
July 2021 Zeitgeist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6d7DhK5nj0
I am sharing it with those of you who are interested in following global events and trends.
Enjoy.
I prepared this presentation for a YouTube special I have created titled "Zeitgeist".
Zeitgeist means the defining spirit or mood of a particular period.
In this monthly program, we review what happened in the world during the past month.
In this presentation, I have brought together the significant moments and events of July 2021.
We cover areas including Turkish fires, Afghan refugees, news, technology, culture, TV, and social media.
The focus will be mainly on Turkey.
The program is narrated in Turkish. However, the slides are in English.
The video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5BAFWs8ps
A similar one I prepared for January 2021 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNzn6n0n6Y
February 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQK6OVAhxU
March 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5todG0fI4
And April 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SG1832kNM
Zeitgeist May 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBiuj7K8FXo
The video is here: July 2021 Zeitgeist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6d7DhK5nj0
I am sharing it with those of you who are interested in following global events and trends.
Enjoy.
I prepared this presentation for a YouTube special I have created titled "Zeitgeist".
Zeitgeist means the defining spirit or mood of a particular period.
In this monthly program, we review what happened in the world during the past month.
In this presentation, I have brought together the significant moments and events of June 2021.
We cover areas including global news, technology, business, innovation, space, culture, TV, and social media.
The program is narrated in Turkish. However, the slides are in English.
The video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5BAFWs8ps
A similar one I prepared for January 2021 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNzn6n0n6Y
February 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQK6OVAhxU
March 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5todG0fI4
And April 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SG1832kNM
The video is here: Zeitgeist May 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBiuj7K8FXo
I am sharing it with those of you who are interested in following global events and trends.
Enjoy.
I prepared this presentation for a YouTube special I have created titled "Zeitgeist".
Zeitgeist means the defining spirit or mood of a particular period.
In this monthly program, we review what happened in the world during the past month.
In this presentation, I have brought together the significant moments and events of May 2021.
We cover areas including global news, technology, business, innovation, space, culture, TV, and social media.
The program is narrated in Turkish. However, the slides are in English.
The video is here: Zeitgeist May 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBiuj7K8FXo
A similar one I prepared for January 2021 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNzn6n0n6Y
February 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQK6OVAhxU
March 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5todG0fI4
And April 2021 Zeitgeist is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SG1832kNM
I am sharing it with those of you who are interested in following global events and trends.
Enjoy.
Lecture 11 - Wrapping up: Practical Exercises and InsightsFahri Karakas
In this lecture, I present a lot of practical reflective exercises you can easily apply to coach yourself and solve your problems.
All you need is your notebook, your pen/pencil, and some time to spend on each exercise.
Below are some of these topics and exercises:
- Establish your own game
- Write yourself an inspirational letter
- Create your own philosophy and mindset
- How to succeed in the 2020s
- Create your own poster with key words that attract you
- Asset Creation: Dimensions and Actions
- Imagine your workday is 2 hours long
- Imagine you have 1 million ideas
- Sample Content Creation Project: 52 Weeks of Creation
- Virality ideas
- £1000 in 24 Hours Challenge
- Build Your Content Empire
- How You Can Coach Yourself and Solve Your Problems
- How You Can Design Your Environment and Habits
- What are your top 10 lessons you have learned in your life?
- How you can cope with anxiety and failures
- Your mindset on hardships
- Actions to take when you fail
- Shark Tank Lessons
- Entrepreneurship Lessons
- Money tips and insights
- Puzzles
- Farewell
Enjoy!
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
BÀI TẬP BỔ TRỢ TIẾNG ANH GLOBAL SUCCESS LỚP 3 - CẢ NĂM (CÓ FILE NGHE VÀ ĐÁP Á...
Lectures 17 and 18: Improvised Lives Workshop: Automated Writing, Drawing, and Creating - 27 November 2020
1. University of East Anglia
Norwich Business School
Employability, Creativity and
Personal Development
NBS-5915A
The Second Half
Lectures 5-6
27 November, 2020
Dr. Fahri Karakas
F.Karakas@uea.ac.uk
3. Slide 1.3
Review of Last Class: Asset Creation
Puzzles
IMPROVISED LIVES Workshop:
◦ Exercise: Automated Creative Writing
◦ Exercise: Automated Imagination (What If…)
◦ Exercise: Automated Adventures and Fun (Lighten Up)
◦ Exercise: Automated Imagination (Your Netflix Show)
◦ Exercise: Automated Ideation (The Matrix Challenge)
◦ Exercise: Moonshots and Asset Creation
◦ Exercise: Automated Drawing and Doodling
Mini-Workshop: Future Generations & Climate Emergency
Mini-Workshop: Life and Employability in a far away place
Key Takeaways
4. Slide 1.4
“Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is
a critical survival skill that we need to
adapt to rapid changes, solve complex
problems, imagine new possibilities,
and navigate uncharted waters ahead
of us.”
Dr. Fahri Karakas
5. Slide 1.5
I define improvised lives as lives defined by a
sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and
spontaneity.
Improvised living requires a playful mode of:
◦ continuous learning,
◦ intense curiosity,
◦ embracing chaos and uncertainty,
◦ thinking and problem solving beyond borders,
◦ experimenting and making mistakes, &
◦ entrepreneurial acting
To start improvising, you can use automated
writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining,
and creating techniques.
6.
7. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
Upstairs, downstairs, and the basement
Art therapy and inequality
Landscape rock and other metaphors
Fates entwine hilariously and horribly
The sad, sad flow of water
A dystopia that we live in
A discretionary tale of gasps and twists
Surprise, surprise, 92
PARASITE
11. Slide 1.11
Coronavirus: Be Anti-fragile
Universities as Places of Imagination
Exercise: Six Adventures & Six
Challenges
Workshop: Heroes of Entertainment and
Imagination (Masterclasses)
◦ Hans Zimmer – film score/music
◦ Chris Hadfield – space exploration
◦ Will Wright – game design
◦ Stephen Curry – basketball
◦ Sara Blakely – entrepreneurship (Spanx)
◦ Shonda Rhimes – TV production and
screenwriting
◦ Frank Gehry – architecture
◦ Diane Von Furstenberg – building a fashion
brand
◦ David Baldacci – mystery/thriller novels
◦ Nas Daily – 1000 days of video creation
◦ Shane Carruth – non-linear cinema
◦ Matt Groening – The Simpsons
◦ Scott Adams – Dilbert
◦ Hayao Miyazaki – immersive animation
◦ Penn and Teller - magic
◦ Chris Record – songs for entrepreneurs
◦ Pokemon – most valuable media franchise
◦ Dallas Cowboys – most valuable sports team
◦ Exercise: Create your own Masterclass
THE SQUASH: The Squash Challenge
& Imagination Exercises
Workshop: Creating Assets
Exercise: You are a Super-hero
Exercise: Living Exponentially &
Avoiding Mediocrity
12. “I'm enough of an artist to draw freely on
my imagination, which I think is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Einstein
14. Review of Takeaways
You can get inspiration from 100
different people and 100 different
fields.
And then imagine you are a
farmer and you are growing 100
creative projects: Let 100 flowers
bloom!
The world needs interesting,
unique, weird people – like you!
It is not easy to scare yourself and
set yourself new challenges and
adventures. But if you do it, you
will be rewarded. You will be
happier.
What kind of a super-hero are
you? How will you help other
people?
15. Your most crucial task is: Create
your own creative assets. Start
now!
Use your Seven I or Entrep. project
as an opportunity to create your
own intellectual and creative
assets.
Do not take yourself seriously. Take
your work seriously.
Do not be trapped by your ego –
this will make you mediocre.
You cannot learn and grow if you
try to be clever all the time. It is
much better to be naïve, hungry,
foolish, playful, and curious.
Review of Takeaways
16. You need to live exponentially and
avoid mediocrity.
Life is short and you are the hero.
Make a difference.
Being part of something large feels
good. We are a community of
learners & experimenters.
Create your own category and be
the owner of that category.
Surprises, adventures, puzzles,
exciting ventures, new projects,
artistic pursuits are good for your
health.
You need a bit more chaos,
randomness, dance, singing,
independent learning, writing, and
creating in your life.
Improvisation is magic – it improves
your life instantly.
Review of Takeaways
17. Your diary is your best friend.
Your diary is a seed catalogue of all your ideas.
Write, draw, reflect, capture your ideas every
day.
We live in an imagination economy. Ideas are
the new currency. Your attention (i.e. your
time) is the most precious thing in the world.
Life is not only about the next goal to be captured.
There is more to life than that. We are not
machines. We need adventures. Sometimes, you
need to relax, breathe, loosen up – just be.
What if you had quadruple lives – wouldn’t
this enrich you as a person?
“Curiosity does not kill the cat. The cat thrives
through curiosity.”
Dr. Fahri Karakas
Review of Takeaways
18. Treat 2020-2021 as the year of ASSET CREATION
Work regularly and consistently on your individual project for
the second half. Create creative assets for your future.
SEVEN I PROJECT (Kickstarter type project)
ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL (Shark Tank type
project)
• Think about the assets you want to
create for your future
• Do not think like a student. Do not
treat this as assignment.
• Do this for your own future.
• Do something real – create something
exciting and fresh.
20. Asset Creation:
How will you go forward?
“Draw the art you want to
see, start the business you
want to buy from, play the
music you want to hear,
write the books you want to
read, build the products you
want to use.”
- Austin Kleon
21. Long Term Thinking and
Productive Habits
https://benjaminhardy.com/want-
to-become-a-multi-millionaire-do-
these-15-things-immediately/
Read and reflect on how you will apply
each principle in your life.
These principles will help you
tremendously in your journey of asset
creation.
23. Creative Writing Exercise
Guidelines
Writing is just playing.
Go with the flow.
Do not judge your writing –
just keep writing.
Write non-sense.
Write boring stuff.
Do not evaluate.
Show up: Your hands do the
work.
Embrace uncertainty.
Never stop writing.
24. Creative Writing Exercise
Choose your anchor phrase.
Whenever you are stuck,
come back and write down
your anchor phrase.
Write non-stop for 10
minutes.
An adorable red cottage
The dark ocean was rising
It is OK to jump off the cliffs
A glorious escape
Those were magical times
What if there is a better way
A mysterious door opens
A yellow squash
25. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
Who was the highest paid celebrity in 2019
in the world?
Taylor Swift
30. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
Who is regarded as the
‘dance messiah’ & probably
the best DJ in the world?
Hint: His net worth is $75m
David Guetta
31. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
Who is the highest paid athlete in
the world?
Hint: Think of a global football star
Lionel Messi
32.
33. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
She is one of the top actresses in Hollywood.
She loves alternative medicine and pseudo-
science. She created a controversial lifestyle
company and brand called ‘Goop’.
Hint: Her Goop is valued at 250 million
dollars.
Gwyneth Paltrow
36. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
Adam Bowen, 43, and James Monsees, 38, met in the early
2000s while in graduate school at Stanford University, where
they were studying product design.
They achieved success by tapping into an addictive habit and
inventing a new product line (and even invented a new verb
during this process).
The controversial company soon became worth more than $30
billion.
Altria (one of the biggest public health villains) invested $12.8
billion for a 35% stake.
Which company is this?
JUUL – e-cigarettes – “vaping”
37. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
At the age of 65, this business leader
announced on social media that he would take
on 65 challenges during his 65th year.
He has done all the challenges (adventures)
and documented them.
Who is he?
Richard Branson
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/65-
challenges-my-65th-year
This is a wonderful list that involves adventure,
creativity, and personal branding.
42. WHAT IF…
Exercise
Please create 5-6 actions
that you can implement in
your life.
Which ones will you try out?
Write down concrete and small action
points you can carry out starting today.
43. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
She is one of the most influential qualitative
researchers in the world. She wrote five NYT
bestseller books.
She has spent two decades studying courage,
vulnerability, shame, and empathy.
She hosts the Unlocking Us podcast.
She is the first researcher to have a filmed
lecture on Netflix “The Call to Courage”.
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through
that process is the bravest thing that we will ever
do.”
Brené Brown
51. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
What is the relationship between
PIXAR and Number 22?
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
52.
53. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
Netflix launched a fashion competition reality
series.
Hint: It is similar to Project Runway - which is
getting a bit old (it has been running for 18
seasons!)
What is the name of the Netflix fashion show?
Next in Fashion
56. Create your own
NETFLIX SHOW
Exercise
Imagine that Netflix hired
you to create your own
show
What would you like to
create?
Feel free to experiment with any formats
(documentary, TV series, interviews, reality,
quiz show, travel, lifestyle, food, fashion,
mystery, science fiction, business,
technology etc.)
60. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
He is a Renaissance Person: A versatile and
creative American actor, comedian, writer,
producer, director, musician, and DJ.
In May 2018, he released a provocative/critical
song and music video "This Is America” which
won four Grammy Awards. The video
powerfully depicts gun violence and being
black in the United States. He was chosen to
Time 100. Who is he?
Donald Glover – Childish Gambino
70. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
In our times, if Trump represents the worst
kind of old/blind capitalist power and greed
(Goliath), who represents youth wisdom with
clarity (David)?
Greta Thunberg
72. Greta Thunberg
On 20th August 2018, after a summer of heatwaves and wildfires in
her native Sweden, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg decided not to attend
school:
If the planet had no future, she argued, there was no point in studying.
Inspired by “school strikes” against shootings in the US, Thunberg’s
demands were straightforward: that the Swedish government reduce
carbon emissions as per the Paris Agreement.
Thunberg has since inspired a wave of school strikes across the
world—with an estimated 1.4m students taking part—and spoken at
the UN Climate Change Conference.
She says her autism, far from being a hindrance, helps her see the
world’s problems in black and white. She speaks with blistering
clarity.
73. Greta alone in 2018.
2019: Look at the scale of
the movement she started
74.
75. “Young people begin to
understand adults’ betrayal of
the planet”
“The eyes of all future
generations” will be watching.”
Greta Thunberg
76.
77. Climate Emergency
As we near 2030—the year that capitalism was meant to be over, the
time when we were meant to have advanced and elevated ourselves—
the predictions are not rosy.
In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
concluded that global warming is likely to reach 1.5 °C between 2030
and 2052 if temperatures continue to increase at the current rate.
In the event we do hit that mark, experts predict:
• a rise of between 26 and 77 centimeters (10 and 30 inches) in sea
level,
• a rapid increase in species extinctions,
• hundreds of millions more people experiencing water and food
shortages, and
• sustained extreme weather the likes of which the modern human
species has never encountered.
We have been stockpiling not just wealth, but disasters.
78.
79. A new generation and a new understanding
• Capitalist production has become an objective hazard for the entirety
of human society.
• We need to establish new standards for social well-being—standards
beyond GDP growth and bottom line.
• We need to get the carbon out of the atmosphere and the plastics out
of the ocean, keep the oil in the ground and the undomesticated
species we have left alive. Anything else is a catastrophic failure.
• A YouGov poll found that support for capitalism among Americans
under 30 fell from 39% to 30% between 2015 and 2018—14
percentage points below the average and 26 points below the figure
for seniors.
• The kids recognize that capitalism has been using up human and
natural resources rather than building a better society.
• Much to everyone’s surprise, Keynes’s grandchildren have become
Marxists. The workforce of 2030 is the last true cohort that market
capitalism gets.
“Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse.” By Malcolm Harris
82. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
We have had Generations X, Y, and Z. What
comes after? Which letter represents the next
generation born after 2010?
ALPHA!
83. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
What are the names of generations
that come after Alpha?
BETA, GAMMA, and DELTA
84. HERE ARE THE FUTURE GENERATIONS:
ALPHA GENERATION: Born between 2010-2024
BETA GENERATION: Born between 2025-2039
GAMMA GENERATION: Born between 2040-2054
DELTA GENERATION: Born between 2055-2069
85.
86. The Alpha Generation is also known as _____________
There are more than 2.5 million Gen Alphas born globally every week.
When they have all been born (2025), they will number almost two billion.
They are in primary school now – they are the most formally educated generation
ever, the most technology supplied generation ever, and globally the wealthiest
generation ever. They will experience AI, robotics, 5G, IoT, and space travel.
Screens are placed in front of them from the youngest age as pacifiers,
entertainers and educational aids.
They were born in 2010, the year the iPad was introduced, Instagram was created
and “app” was the word of the year.
They already interact with Google Home and Alexa on a regular basis, requesting
jokes or asking for facts about the weather.
They have been raised as “screenagers” to a greater extent so they are also called
GENERATION ___________
GENERATION GLASS
87. The biggest celebrity of the Alpha Generation is not
Michael Jordan, nor Taylor Swift.
WHO?
Hint: This is a YouTube Channel having 24 million
subscribers, and $112 millions net worth as of Feb
2020.
Ryan ToysReview! (Ryan’s World)
94. I have recently read:
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World–
Peter H Diamandis
• A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies,
moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create
extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of
billions.
• Part 1: exponential technologies: 3D printing, artificial
intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic
biology.
• Part 2: Psychology of Bold: Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard
Branson, Jeff Bezos, Singularity University, XPRIZE, Planetary
Resources, & Human Longevity, Inc.
• Part 3: incentive competitions, crowdfunding campaigns, crowd-
powered tools.
95. What is the Purpose of a Corporation?
On August 19 the Business Roundtable issued an open letter
titled “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.”
One of the preeminent business lobbies in the United States,
the Business Roundtable (BR) includes the CEOs of leading
U.S. companies from Apple to Walmart.
Sandwiched between the spare title and 181 signatures was a
one-page declaration that ended as follows:
“Each of our stakeholders is essential. We commit to deliver
value to all of them, for the future success of our companies,
our communities and our country.”
99. Exercise:
Get a new white page in
front of you.
Close your eyes.
In the next 40 seconds:
Do random drawings while
your eyes are closed.
AUTOMATED DOODLING &
DRAWING
100. Now: Open your eyes.
Look at your random drawings.
In the next 40 seconds:
Try to find a pattern or multiple patterns
among the chaotic drawings.
In the next one minute:
Try to create “abstract art”.
Remember: Art thrives on chaos and
emergence.
In the next one minute:
Give a name to your artwork.
Write a short description (perhaps incorporate a
philosophy or a story into this).
AUTOMATED
DOODLING &
DRAWING
101. DOODLING & DRAWING
EXERCISE @HOME
Create random drawings
or doodles for each
small screen.
No waiting or thinking.
Do not think hard and
do not judge your
drawing.
Your hands should flow
and do the work – your
mind should not
evaluate, criticise, or
interrupt.
102. DOODLING & DRAWING
EXERCISE @HOME
PART 2
Try to turn each circle into a
different object.
Make it as quick as possible.
The more ideas, the better.
106. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
By which year does Elon Musk’s
SpaceX aim to send the first
astronauts to Mars?
By 2024
107. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
America’s 2020 budget includes
funding for a manned Mars
mission to launch with a goal of
bringing back samples of the Red
Planet.
For which year is this plan?
2026
108. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
How many people does Elon
Musk wish to send to Mars until
2050?
1 million
114. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
How long is one year in Mars?
Hint: Longer than the Earth.
687 days!
115. HERE IS A PUZZLE:
How will people on Mars
communicate with people on
Earth?
Which technology?
Holoportation technology (virtually
placing people in the same room)
127. Slide 1.127
To solve wicked problems of the 21st century, you need to
think beyond borders and disciplines.
Invest in yourself and your learning every day. This is the
biggest investment you can ever make.
1) Ask Right Questions + Follow Your Interests + Intense Curiosity + Continuous
Learning + Imagination + Passion
2) Courage: Take Risks + Consistent Small Actions + Smart Moves + Hard Work + Play
Your Game + Resilience + Resourcefulness
Think about where you will be after 10 years. Act
according to that vision.
You can be as big as your dreams and ambitions.
128. Slide 1.128
You can use improvisation to increase adventure and
quality in your life.
Try to apply automated writing, drawing, doodling, story-
telling, ideating, designing, creating, dancing, and singing
in your life.
In this life, it is never too late to follow your interests,
curiosities, and passions.
Show up for creative work and use random prompts or
anchors to get going. Start small – small is beautiful.
Business as usual is over. We need a new paradigm of
business that solves complex problems ahead of us.
129. Slide 1.129
In your profession, it is not enough to know only about
business or finance or HR or marketing. You need to think
bigger.
Be a polymath: An individual whose knowledge spans a significant
number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve
specific problems.
Be an autodidact: A self-taught person individual who initiates and
manages his/her own learning and reads voraciously
Be a hunter and learner of most interesting things. Cross
boundaries – there are no borders.
Go out of your comfort zone. Learn outside your
discipline. Think and act wider.
130. Slide 1.130
This lecture itself was improvised. I learned all the things on these
slides in the last two weeks.
I had to make hard choices and reduced from 250 slides. Many
things I learned did not make the final cut.
All the rules of traditional lectures and curriculum – I have thrown
them out from the window.
Sometimes I feel terrified: Am I on the right track? Does this make
sense to you? What do you think? Please provide me feedback and
let me know.
Education as usual is dead. Long live lifetime learning!
Assume responsibility for your own learning.