Reflection of Creative Thinking Class

This creative thinking class to me is great, i feel good feel free, the important things is there is so much information to learn in here and it’s not boarding at all, that is why I did not miss any class of it, even when I was really sick.

From the very first week, Kris has been asked our mood or how we feel everyday, is like our friends, it’s just so different with other classes. In the beginning, I barely know no one, it’s exacting to know new friends, wondering what their life experience, also I have a bit worries, English always is a problem to me, but this is a good change to paretic my English. Anyways, in week one, I make some friends because we are a group, the “Marshmallow challenge”, in the very first week we learned how to work as a team, it’s kind of easy, but i don’t know team work will be such as difficult things in my final project, more challenge.

The weekly journal is one of the most important work to do, we can recorded what we learn in class, how we feel and what problems do we need to solved. When we look back, we will remember what we learn and also can learn from the mistakes we took before. It can poured forth our feeling. Also write the journal can keep our attention to follow the course. Like we learned about the mental block, there have different block that we can know in our life, we can use this knowledge to analyse people. Also when we stuck in trouble, we have process to solved to problems, SCAMPER can help me to do efficient brainstorming. In addition, when we have a case of the dooms about a challenge, we incubate it, then the answer will come when we least expect it. Also we learn how to get idea, there is also have process to get the idea, we need to think different way, different angle, the 6 thinking hat is exactly perfect idea. Every time we look into a problems, we need those thinking to solved the problems. All this knowledge is every useful, not only use in design but also use in our daily life, it dealing with everyday situations. I really like the videos call “Every body die but not everybody live” by Prince Ea, that video is so impressive, after the class i watch it few times also share with my friend, he is so right, everyone should chase our dream, life is short, I don't want to waste time, I want to do something, leave meaningful life. We have been given a gift that we call life.

After all we learned, finally we need to use this knowledge to practice in real project. Our final project is create an app, it is a team work. The first few times, team work is simple and easy, but this time is real, and we met difficulties in the beginning. “Team work”, it reminded me that I saw a picture a few days ago, it is about group project, there is four people in this photo, there is only one guy does 99% of the work, rest of the three people, there will be one guy has no idea what is going on the whole time, another guy says he is going to help but he is not, and the worst one is disappear at the very beginning and does not show up again until the very end. Fortunately, our group have five member, at least we are all doing something, so what is the hardest thing in our group? It is hard to said, in our group we had two Chinese which including me and three Indian friends, sometimes it is difficult to work together, I think we grow up in different country with different culture, it might have some different ideology. So when I realise this problems is quite big, I choose to communicate with them in patience. After many conversation, it really make me feel stress, and sometimes I will get angry, I am that kind the person who will stand mine opinion till the end, if that premise I was true then. But in this case, I learned how to convince others, but not fight, I know that will be ugly and useless. In one group, it can not have two stubborn person, sometimes we all need to compromise. Then as we learned about mental block, I am analyse them, what kind of mental block is it, and how to deal with my negativing thinking, and try to make our work better. At least we all on the same page with same goal, that is why I did not give up.

Overall, in conclusion, this class mean a lot to me, i think we all have a great time on this course. I learned a lot, make some new friends. In group project also I learned how to work as a team, and learned from the mistake i took, and learned to be patient to communicate with other people. When we dealing with problems, we know we should ask people first, collage lots of opinion, then to solved the problem. Learning it, is not only for our design work but also for our life.