How to Boost Your Creativity at Home in 10 Days

Course details

Creative thinking is something we’re all capable of. And it's a skill we can all improve with a bit of effort. Instructor Dave Birss has spent much of his career studying and applying creativity. He’s helped to lead the creative departments of some of the UK’s biggest ad agencies. And he’s conducted experiments to see what helps people come up with better ideas. In this course, he shares his knowledge with you. Discover how to develop your creative abilities, so you're better equipped to generate valuable ideas for your company or yourself. Each lesson includes a practical exercise that’s designed to improve different facets of your creative abilities. Along the way, Dave shares tools and techniques to help you come up with, improve upon, and prototype novel ideas. Plus, get tips for persuading decision-makers to support your ideas. Tune in to one lesson a day for 10 days to supercharge your creative abilities.

Topics include:
Describe how to alter perspective and viewpoint.
Identify problems in an environment.
Generate ideas that are not ordinary or obvious.
Generate ideas by combining and borrowing.
Describe the importance of criteria in forming a judgment.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome to Boost Your Creativity from Home in 10 Days

1. Input

02 - Broaden your perspectives by doing something new
03 - The power of considering different viewpoints
04 - How to improve your observation skills
05 - Finding problems worth solving

2. Process

06 - How to move beyond the obvious to the valuable
07 - Generating new ideas by combining old ones
08 - Borrowing ideas from other fields and making them yours

3. Output

09 - How to judge and improve your ideas
10 - Small-time testing for big-time learning
11 - How to sell ideas more effectively

Conclusion

12 - Turn these lessons into habits