SIMPLE ACTIVITIES TO GALVANISE YOUR GENIUS!

Writing in the 'Kinderblossoms' edition of The InGenius Series of bookazines, Dilip Mukerjea shares the following simple activities to galvanise your genius:

1) Leaves & Flowers: Feel the textures, smell the fragrances, then draw what you sense;

2) Emotions: What does "happy", "sad", or "angry" look like? Mimic these emotions in a mirror and draw what you see. Then try a range of other emotions;

3) Name Designs: Project your personality to the planet! Create some fabulous designs, based on your own name. Use colour, images, and symbols to craft your masterpieces;

4) Your Life So Far: Draw the key points in your life; use a range of emotions to flavour your work;

5) Making Personal Flags: Design a personal flag that descrbes your nobility!

6) Storyboarding: Draw the events of a story on a storyboard, and get a friend to make up the text;

7) Detailed Observation: Look closely at something (any object) and see if you can come up with at least ten features that are particular to that object;

8) Talking Textiles: Use drawing and clothing as a way of expressing historical stories, involving links to Science, Language, Cultures, and Geography;

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Say Keng's personal comments:

The suggested activities may seem mundane, but I can assure readers that they are designed to enable you to perceive the world in differing as well as interesting ways.

In a nut shell, they can heighten your perceptual sensitivity as well as sensory acuity to the world around you, which, to me, are the essential prerequisites to personal creativity.

You will be really inspired, and not only that, you will never be the same again in looking at the world around you.

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I am sure that many readers are familiar with the work of Michael Hewitt-Gleeson from Down Under.

Just in case you don't:

He is the man who created the global School of Thinking curriculum with creativity guru Edward de bono way back in the nineties.

The School of Thinking curriculum is reportedly the largest program in the world for teaching “thinking skills” and teaching “teaching thinking skills”.

More importantly, he is the brain behind the classic, 'Sofware for Your Brain' (originally published in the late eighties) & its principal premise:

cvs TO bvs or cvs2bvs;

In a nut shell, cvs2bvs simply means that the Current View of the Situation (CVS) can never be equal to the Better View of the Situation (BVS).

Or, cvs ≠ bvs;

According to the progenitor, when you understand & practise it consistently, your BVS can be ten times better than your CVS.

cvs X10 = bvs;

I am a fully dedicated supporter of his brilliant ideas. To me, the equation is the hallmark of enhancing your perceptual sensitivity &/or sustaining your sensory acuity: via changing perceptions, multiple perceptions, & fluidity of perception.

[By the way, in the wonderful book, 'Fast Strategy: How Strategic Agility will help you stay ahead of the Game', the two Scandinavian consultants/authors Yves Doz & Mikko Kosonen refer to this phenomenon as "strategic sensitivity".]

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