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CREATIVITY
Developing
the Dreamer with the impossible
Expand
your creativity and have fun
The Queen told Alice that
there were days in which she thought of up to six impossible things before
breakfast! This is a great exercise of creativity: once in a while, think (all right, of at
least three) things that seem impossible. Examples:
- You flying or crossing
walls.
- The world without wars.
- All street children with dwelling
and assistance.
- Extraterrestrials with faces of famous artists landing with
presents for everybody.
- Earth with two moons, both full.
- A cheese-made Moon
- You
reserving three minutes a day to practice this...
They say that a woman has
applied this technique to dream up a gift for her husband, and one day he arrived
at home and found her half-naked, wrapped in cellophane paper with a ribbon tied
around her!
The
main benefits of this practice are: increased freedom of thought, which leads to
greater creativity, and enhanced mental constructive capacity, base of behaviors
and achievements and one of the main characteristic of Disney’s Dreamer.
It can be also used to "warm-up" before a creative activity. Besides, it
can be entertaining or therapeutic: for example, try doing it when you are in a not so good mood!
Tips
- When you read or hear something concrete, you have
to imagine it to understand it. If you understood "cheese-made moon", you
have already generated an internal image, which constitutes the meaning of
that expression to you. Therefore, you can think of impossible things just formulating
appropriate linguistic representations.
- If ideas won't flow, try starting with an object and then search for
impossible happenings with that object. For example, a car.
- See Creativity: How to
generate different ideas. V. V. Vilela
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