Tag: creativity

What is the future?

How do you prepare for the future?

Why is it important to think about the future?

How do you think about the future?

How do you try to understand what the future could be?

What is your power to change the future to design the future to write your future?

What are the factors and the actors that are influencing our future?

What can I do to influence them? to influence my future?

Who has an advantage in the future?

Who knows best about the future? And why? What can I learn from them?

What are the methods and tools, techniques we can use or we can invent, build better futures?

Is it important to know about the future? Should I worry about the future?

If it is impossible to know the future, why am I worrying about it?

Shall I just be prepared for any possible future? Which is impossible, So for which future Should I prepare for? To do what and why and how?

If I knew the future, what would I do today?

How can I make the activity of being curious about the future, not scary? How can I enjoy the process of imagining futures?

Is the future part of our work? How can we use thinking about the future as a force for good? To change our collectivity, our society?

What is future literacy? What shall every person know about the future?

How is future thinking, connected to sciences or day-to-day activities, or learning, studying, and researching?

Who are the most important thinkers in future studies? What are their positions? What about their contrasting attitudes and behaviors towards the future? What can we learn from those?

Has the man ever thought about the future during history, as we are doing right now, why and how? How was thinking about the future different in the past?

How will thinking about the future change in the future?

What is time? What’s the relationship between the present past and the future? Is it the same thing? Are they always connected? Shall we think about time instead of the future? 

What can I do to control time? What is the effect of my past on my future? Is it always linear and logical the evolution of a certain past into a certain future? Yes? no? When? how? What can I learn from this?

Do I see a coffee in my future? Yes in the very next future.

I am Massimo Curatella, and this is my DAY 21 Article in the CREAZEE Daily Writing Challenge and my 158th daily article in a row. 

Dear Max of the 30 April 2021,

this is yourself from the past, the 7th of April. The CREAZEE Challenge is going on for seven days now. It is beyond any expectation you had in terms of participation, ideas, contributions’ quality, spirit.

You have questions in your mind and, wisely, you started to share them with your Challengers. You did well. They are involved in this project, they began to feel the importance of the daily writing habit building, and they will be an essential part of the community at the end of the month regardless of their future intentions.

Is CREAZEE a cohort-based challenge that repeats each month indefinitely? Or is the challenge an initial test to enter the community?

Daily writing is just a tool at the service of the most diverse variety of persons. Why don’t you tap into this fantastic collective of creatives to understand from them how they want to continue?

The Circle platform has excellent benefits but also some limitations: long threads of replies become quickly unmanageable. The forum-like platform is not well-suited to aggregate and distribute resources or organized pages. You need to develop a dedicated website for Challengers to publish book-like information and collect challengers’ contributions.

How did you manage the daily challenge workflow? Right now, the prompt release is starting the day while the collecting of all the articles is manual and tedious. Why don’t you delegate the “check-the-mark” process to the challengers, so they are even more in charge of giving proof of their daily writing?

Google Drive might not be elegant to collect the actual documents but demonstrated to be reliable and open. Even without community support, it’s always possible to access all participants’ articles organized by folder. The “Activity” tab at the group’s root folder is invaluable to give a log of who wrote what and when. That is a powerful feature to monitor group activity.

Did you organize live chats? You can give a lot of support to challengers and learn a lot from them if you just talk to them. It might be resource-demanding, but you should try to have at least one call per week to integrate the textual support provided through the community forum.

And, finally, have you prepared a final day of celebration? It will be necessary to celebrate the incredible achievement obtained by strangers gathered on the Internet to write for their life. How did you manage to give the proper importance to such a decisive goal?

Max, I am proud of you. In such a short time, you finally passed from dreaming to making this project a reality. You deserve to receive your group of challengers’ warm friendship because you created a fantastic little spot in the online world to be yourself together with others while growing and pushing for being better. Please take some time to reflect on this incredible month and be prepared, again, to be CREAZEE.

I am Massimo Curatella, and this is my DAY 3 Article in the CREAZEE Daily Writing Challenge, and my 138th daily article.

Dear readers, this is my answer to the Write 100 Ideas creative exercise.

1. How to become an independent author.
2. How to reuse the content you have produced to create a product.
3. How to create an online course.
4. How to reuse the format for an online course to apply it to different disciplines.
5. Online course about writing.
6. Online course about creating an online course.
7. Online course about how to become a designer.
8. How to become a facilitator.
9. How to self-develop by writing every day.
10. How to build a habit.
11. How to become a coach.
12. How to facilitate collective intelligence.
13. How to use the Internet and social networks to create your personal brand.
14. How to create a group of professionals collaborating remotely on several projects.
15. How to build a habit to take daily photographs to develop your photography skills.
16. How to become a better learner.
17. How to create your personal knowledge management system.
18. How to read effectively.
19. How to take notes.
20. How to explain complex topics effectively.
21. How to be a better critical thinker.
22. How to improve your memory.
23. How to develop your artistic sensitivity.
24. How to develop your artistic expression with Visual Media.
25. Visual facilitation.
26. Future thinking, how to think about the future.
27. How to manage your time and productivity when you are an independent professional.
28. How to integrate your time management system with your family.
29. Keeping a diary.
30. How to educate people, your family, your children, using games.
31. How to learn to play any musical instrument.
32. Writing poetry.
33. What is the most useful fundamental knowledge every human being should have?
34. Create a collection of the 100 most influential books of all human history.
35. Top 100 films.
36. Top 100 podcasts.
37. Top 100 thinkers in history.
38. 100 places I want to visit and their stories.
39. Make a list of all the people that I know.
40. Find groups of people that I know aggregated by their skills.
41. Find at least ten professional opportunities per month.
42. Prepare a list of topics to write about to position me as an expert in the fields that interest me.
43. Study and share about design.
44. Facilitation.
45. Systems thinking.
46. Critical thinking.
47. Knowledge management.
48. Teaching and education.
49. Learning, understanding memory.
50. Neuroscience.
51. What is the latest theory about life in the universe?
52. What is the theory of mind?
53. What are the basics of artificial intelligence?
54. What is essential in computer science that I can use in my interests.
55. Learn Chinese.
56. Learn to cook.
57. Apply the metaphor of cooking to systems thinking, design, and as a simple project to create, as software to learn and teach about computer science, interaction design, and brain development.
58. What are the most important trends for the future?
59. According to the trends, what can I do today to mitigate risks for the future?
60. How to be healthy.
61. The basic concepts of nutrition.
62. Personal finance, what is important to know to avoid.
63. Is there any kind of investment, financial investment that I can do to have some future revenues?
64. What are the most important things to be done when you have children for every year of their life?
65. Is it important the location where you live? How am I affected by the place where I live?
66. What can I do to get the benefits of having contacts with people around the World?
67. Creates a periodical meeting with creative people to exchange ideas.
68. How would it be to live by always flying up in the air?
69. If I have to go to Mars, what would it bring with me?
70. What is sex?
71. What is the impact of sex on our lives? And how should we behave accordingly?
72. What is change? How do you manage it?
73. How can I create an environment conducive to creativity, health, and wealth for my family and me and my friends?
74. What is the most important thing that I should do every day that would have the highest impact on my life?
75. Who are my best friends?
76. What am I doing to curate my relationship with other people?
77. Can I create rituals, celebrations, and special dates to enjoy life more?
78. What happened if I booked some time per week or per day to do something fun?
79. How can I involve other people in creative, smart regenerating activities without wasting our time?
80. How can I earn a living by having fun and leaving a legacy?
81. What is my legacy? What do I want to leave as a legacy?
82. We cannot live separately, and we are forced to be closed in lockdown. What would I do If I were free to leave?
83. What’s the best place in the world where I would live instead of this one?
84. Who is a person from the past that I would like to meet again?
85. What’s the best place I visited and why?
86. What are my best memories?
87. What are my worst memories and what I have learned from them, That I am applying today?
88. Do I have a daily ritual in which I reflect on the most important things I have listed so far?
89. How can I overlap, intersect and create synergies between the different needs and desires I have, Like working and having fun? Working and meeting people, having fun, and earning money?
90. What is the role of animals in our lives? How can we live more and better with them?
91. What would it be to live near the sea? Or in the countryside?
92. What are behaviors that are part of my character that I could change?
93. What experiment can I do to see what happens if I behave differently from what I’ve been doing so far?
94. How can I learn from books and past experiences that can be useful for my life without being myself in the first person to experiment?
95. I want to fly. What would it be to be able to fly?
96. Why don’t we create virtual worlds to express our desires to be free from our bodies? Like being able to fly?
97. What about learning and teaching about painting, sculpting, and creating 3d worlds and video games or environments to explore and interact with and live different lives.
98. What’s the meaning of life? If it is giving sense to others, what purpose am I giving to others?
99. How do I want to be remembered?
100.  If being happy means knowing that I did it and doing that thought as the last thought that I think while being alive, what would I be to have done it?

I want to tell you a technique to write about a specific experience that you had without mentioning in the context the people involved or particular details that maybe are supposed to be private or confidential.

You can use the technique of abstraction.

In an abstraction, you’re supposed to extract only the meaningful details of your experience to share valuable knowledge or the lessons learned.

This is useful because somebody who will read your article will learn something. But at the same time, you didn’t betray your friends or the people involved with the story, so they wouldn’t feel attacked or disappointed because you have been discreet.

You have to be careful. You have to change the names, change the context. You have to tell the critical concept of what you have learned because all the rest is irrelevant, or maybe you cannot tell it.

Changing the context would help. Set your story in a different setting. Change the time as well.

Instead of yesterday, for example,  it happened five years ago. And instead of your closest cousins, it was a distant friend from the other part of the world. Instead of happening online, it happened in real life. Although we are in pandemic times, and you’re not supposed to meet anybody.

So be careful not to betray any recognizable detail. But in the end, it would be helpful to save usable knowledge that you gained and you think that you cannot share. 

That’s another smart writing prompt to add to your creative toolbox.

Why writing? 

If you think better when you write, you need to write a lot to write well.  So, to feel less lonely, albeit creative, lower your ambitions to keep being consistent. Do it small to do it better. 

Writing brings a lot of benefits to your life because writing:

1. builds your networks
2. connects your ideas
3. improves your memory
4. makes you a better observer
5. makes you more self-aware
6. dissolves your distractions
7. reduces your jargon and slang
8. generates ideas 
9. facilitate growth by tracking habits 
10. makes you type faster 
11. enhances your reality 
12. compounds despite everything 

Writing is like drinking coffee, and it makes you creative and happy. 

Transcribe your thoughts to become an effective communicator. Write daily to become a better manager.

Writing is a process, so it’s essential to automate repetitive tasks, publish the text as digital text, not images, and back up your work not to lose it.
If only I could be ten, again, I would write daily to build a habit, but I need to be smart, so I will let it go.