09/23/2017: Travel Log Entry #4Week 4 brings about the next leg of the journey on the path towards Creative Leadership, looking at how to bring ideas to fruition.
From the introduction section of Making Ideas Happen, I think I have aspects from both Chad and Risa, and I am trying to become more like Jonathan. In comparison to Chad, I share a tendency to end up more on the disorganized side, which reminded me of a previous reading, talking about innovation coming from more of a mad scientist setting. On the other hand, I tend to embrace technology more than Chad, though some I try to keep at a safe distance, like keeping up with family on social media but avoiding posting. Like Risa, I've gone through a lot of career changes, and also have lots of half-started projects. Looking up to Jonathan, I agree with his analysis that successful innovators need to be adept at switching between ideation an execution modes, and I have heard a similar philosophy from Adam Savage, the creative leader I mentioned in the introduction week. From John Cleese's speech, I liked his structured approach to come up with creative ideas, and I learned about some of the research around the study of creativity. So far this semester, I've been pretty good at sticking to deadlines, which is always a good motivator, but what I picked up from this speech is looking at the start time as well. I also think he has a good point in not getting stuck in closed mode and getting too focused on the results or a specific task, which I think is easy these days with bite-sized pieces of social media bombarding our Facebook feeds. In structuring the time to develop creativity, I will try to follow his method to set this up, allowing enough time to settle down and push the trivial items out of our heads, but still setting a hard deadline to meet and embracing the discomfort in the anxiety of not knowing a solution on the path to coming up with a creative solution during that time to avoid jumping at the first ideas. Looking ahead at the next sections of Making Ideas Happen, here is where I fit within the 3 tools:
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AuthorAlex Wong, MASD Student Archives
December 2017
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