Buzan on Creativity

This 1 day course is also heavily on how our brain works and how to nurure them.

Leonardo Di Vinci once said :

"I am a student of nature. I observe, I study, I analyse and I copy."

So copying is actually the brain does well...with its certain bunch of mirror neuron cells. But do not just stop at copying, but instead...IMPROVE!!

Many of us thought art was tough and abstract...cannot be train and nurtured. So during the course we did afew examples to prove ourselves wrong!!. The example of the science of art are :

we then re-copy small squares of lines (no idea what the lines are) into the big picture with left hand...then we realise what we have created...

Then he ask if we have written any poem ...we all say never lah...impossible...(not in english anyway for me). Then he guide us to use mindmap to link 2 subjects together and write down the connection. Within 15 minutes I then complete my 1st english poem.

Then he summarise:

1. Drawing = Draws - u - in. When we are drawing away the mind maps..we are totally focus, concentrated for > 30 mins yet still relax. So it's very important to start drawing things to train up your brain.

2. If we use creativity the wrong way. The more powerful we are, the stronger we are, the more force we use, we actually sink deeper. How true. Just look at Ah Bian again.

3. The highest form of thinking is M______. This is how we connect things, associate thoughts, and able to combine things to creat new ideas. (any guess? put your answer in my coment area...1st correct answer get a lunch!!).

4. last not not least, remember to kep stimuating your brain...play mind gmes, learn something new each year, be as curious as a child, BELIEVE YOU ARE BRILLIANT (and so do every one else!) and set Goals and act to realise them.

we are actually using less than 1% of our brain capability...if you are willing, and u belive in it, u ca can actually expand the capability of your brain power...towards infinity. In a creaitive thinker's mind...every thing will have a solution.

Good luck!!