After this class, I should say I have learned many creative thinking skills and changed my thinking habits, which I also write in both of my class sessions archives and my synthesis. But here, I want to specify more on it.
What I have learned:
From the books: I described myself to knock at the creative door from Weston's book, because he gave us some initial and basic ideas on creativity. Plus,Da vinchi and Tharp's books provide many useful creative thinking methods and principles which to some extent let me know much deeper and more comprehensive on creativity. Especially Tharp's book, one of the most memorable points is that it encourages everyone to be creative and indicates that every layperson could also be able to be creative, which make me become more confident on my creative ability.
From the arts: After seeing the arts, I feel that even though some of them are hard to understand, we could still summarize some good implications from it. For example, like seeing the art, if next time I'm thinking about some problems/ideas or making judges on some objects, I should take any possible perspectives into consideration, not just from one side. And I should also hear from other people's opinions to see if there are any better alternatives.Furthermore, to understand a problem/situation, I should first have a whole/comprehensive understanding on it, like backgrounds and history, which offer a good platform to take further step on exploring deeper ideas and thoughts.
From YTU: This session provide me huge information on creativity, by different people on various areas. Some showed good cases about how some famous brands make creative strategies, and some gave us lessons on other useful creative thinking and management skills that different from the class sessions'.
What I have changed:
Like Tharp suggests us, I have tried to change my thinking habits and cultivate new habit on my creative life. For example, I start to think about thinking and figure out some potential implications on my dreams, which I never did before. Plus, the creative thinking methods help me a lot to solve problems when I'm doing group works and advertising projects, which in other words improve my proficiency on my work and life, that is, I'm becoming more effective and productive.
