VA1N Creative Thinking: WEEK 05: MIND MAPPING.

MIND MAPPING GROUP ACTIVITY

Group 05. Our mind map revolve around the picture depleting four punk looking guys. Our main branches are Behaviour, Society, Lifestyles, Beliefs and Style which revolves around the Punk culture and the punks themselves. Punk Behaviour mainly includes being rude, confident and rebellious. Punks are viewed in society as dangerous, cool, out of control and as outcasts. Punk styles are mainly bold, grungy and sometimes glam rock. Punks beliefs are usually anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment and non-conformity. Punk lifestyles involves rock bands, road trips and punk visual arts.

SETH GODIN's TED TALK SUMMARY

We're now in the fashion business, no matter what we do for a living. And people in the fashion business know what it's like to be in the fashion business, while the rest of us have to figure out how to think that way. How to understand it's not about interrupting people with big full-paged ads, or insisting on meetings with people. But it's a totally different sort of process that determines which ideas spread, and which ones don't.

But market to people that are have the " Otaku " personality, because they're the ones that care. These are the people who are obsessed with something. And when you talk to them, they'll listen, because they like listening - it's about them. And if you're lucky, they'll tell their friends on the rest of the curve ( from your average middle class to laggards to businessmen ), and it'll spread, to even the entire curve.

Your idea needs to be remarkable. Design is free when you get to scale. The people who come up with stuff that's remarkable more often than not figure out how to put design to work for them. The riskiest thing you can do now is be safe. And being good is one of the worst thing you could possibly do. Very good is boring. Very good is average. So what you need to do is figure out who actually care. Who is going to raise their hand and say " I want to hear what you're doing next, " and sell something to them.

AMY TAN's TED TALK SUMMARY

How can we create something out of nothing? What is the value of nothing?

One of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma. When you're faced with something traumatic, you start to think very much about everything. You become very creative in a survival sense. Always ask yourself, " Why do things happen and how do things happen? ". Think of creativity as the quantum mechanics. There's lot of unknowns but if you associate some of the things you actually know, it may all start to make sense. All of us in life, when we see a situation, we have a response. And then we have intentions. There's an ambiguity of how we think we should react. We are all concerned of things that we see in the world that we are aware of. We come to this point where we ask " What do i as an individual do? ".

Although we hate moral ambiguity, it is necessary. There's a kind of serendipity when we combine or rethink about something bad and something good. Randomness is not something that can occur by luck or chance. Sometimes things happens for a reason and sometimes our brain thinks a certain way for a reason. To create something out of nothing, you need to combine something and nothing together to create an end result that is and idea. This idea may not work but you can always work from the equation again and again using different unknowns. Always remind yourself that there is uncertainty in everything.

Mind Mapping
How does education fit in our dreams of a happy life?

Group 5.
Sub Branches: Advantages & Disadvantages of education. Happy life and unhappy life.

To evaluate this question and to form a conclusion, we decided that the sub branches in the mind map will be our main points that we'll evaluate.

The advantages of education is that it creates opportunities in our lives. Education also allow us to get better jobs to earn more money. Happy life is when one has stable financial background. Happy life is when one is able to achieve his or her goals in life.

The disadvantages of education is that it creates stress to some, having to compete with others and live up to expectations. Sometimes education also does not give you experience, experience to tackle certain problems you face in your life. Unhappy life is when you feel pressured by society. Unhappy life is when you're not safe. Unhappy life is also when you have not stable roof.

Therefore, education may not actually be a huge factor that fit in our dreams of a happy life. A happy life is when you feel safe and education does not guarantee that. Also, we cannot solely rely on education to fit in our dreams of a happy life. A happy life can be simply just having a family. It can be created by other means than just solely education. Unhappiness can be solved, happiness can be created, with or without education.

DAY 01: Playing with Aesthetics.

DAY 02:

Admirable strength and resilience. Appreciative of their hard work in the progress of making something impactful.

DAY 03:

Just an ordinary ceiling to you can be an extraordinary ceiling to me. All the things I go do with it. I could create an animation on it and even a few morphings of it.

DAY 04: Flowers at Istana Park.