Reflections: INDIVIDUAL CREATIVE TECHNIQUES

Assalamualaikum w.b.t.

For today's class, we learnt about the individual creative techniques. Why we learnt this topic? It is because every person in this world is creative in their own way in which every person has different techniques in creativity.

The most important reason that keep making people think that they are not creative are mostly came from the mental block. Like mentioned in the picture above, the mental blocks that keep making people think that they are not as creative as other people is. They think that the superior idea mostly comes from somebody that is good or best like the politician, famous person, public figures and others. They assume that the idea from 'nobody' like the netizens is bad and awful that it could not be used at all.

So, in order to get rid of the mental blocks, we need to at least know the role of creativity as such everybody is creative and owns creative ability but it needs to be stimulated.

Brief explanation on role of creativity according to Roger (1986).

There are many techniques for creativity but we only learnt a few of it which are; list of attributes, expired date, and the Sun. In the list of attributes technique, we need to list out the physical (eg; color, speed), social (eg; responsibility, leadership), psychological (eg; motivation, perception), and cost for the idea that we are going to make. Next, the expired date. The expired date is used as a time frame because as the main concern in a critical situation, the time frame will forces our mind to think and finding the solution needed for the problem at our hand. Lastly, the Sun. The Sun technique is used for us to improvise the quality of our product mostly for our marketing. This technique is used a lot buy many companies in selling their products to the public as the Sun is symbol of power.

As for today's group activity, it was conducted by Azian's group and Kevin's group. Azian's group activity is about creativity. We were given two pieces of A4 size old newspaper and told to make a big circle out of it but we were not allowed to use any scissors at that time. All of the groups managed to generate the huge circle out of the papers given to us.

The whole class person in the class can fit in this circle made by Kevin's group.

This is us.

Umai's group

Azian is doing a short briefing about the game to us.

This circle is made by Mega's group.

Almost every person can fit in this circle.

The whole class is having fun now

The last activity was conducted by Kevin's group. For this activity, we were playing Photo Hunts. We need to go all around our faculty building to find and capture the right photo like shown to us in order for us to win the race. It does really made us sweat a lot by walking all over the building finding the right photo. This game made us know about our faculty from inside and out since we need to explore around and within the building for searching for the right photo. Here are some of the photos from the race;