Idea Machine: Rediscover Your Creativity

Course details

Welcome to Idea Machine!

In this course, you will learn how to rediscover your creativity and generate tons (perhaps even hundreds) of new ideas in business and life. The reason why I say "rediscover" is because the belief here is that we were all born with innate powers of creativity and imagination. Over time, many of us lose our confidence touch and confidence.

And in a world were challenges are becoming increasingly complex and ambiguous, our creativity can lead the way to more clarity and poise in our quest for success. The need to be creative has never been more real.

This course is focused mostly on the idea generation, not idea evaluation, though I do provide a couple of quick ways you can evaluate your ideas, too. Another way to think of it is as a problem solving guide.

The course is split up into 6 sections:

Section 1: Introduction

An overview of what you will learn

Section 2: Building Creative Confidence

Start on your journey on how to gain confidence in your creative abilities again

Section 3: The Principles of Creativity

Learn about the multiple aspects of creativity that are utilized in the three main stages of Idea Generation: 1) Focus, 2) Explore, and 3) Move (these principle categorizations are my own based on the works of other experts in the field)

Section 4: Idea Generation

Mostly adapted from Michael Michalko's book Thinkertoys, this section provides 5 techniques you can immediately use to start looking at problems in new perspectives and coming up loads of new ideas.

Section 5: Idea Evaluation

Here, you'll learn a couple of quick techniques to help you sift through and evaluate the ideas that you have generated.

Section 6: A New Beginning

Some parting thoughts. Please don't skip this lecture. It contains some important takeaways that I want you to take with you.

This course ISN'T for you if:

• you are looking for tips and tricks on how to release a creative product, e.g. a music album or a book
• you just want a quick fix (just like how you can't lose 30 pounds in one weekend, don't expect to be a creative genius after this 2+ hour course. You must be willing to adapt the principles in this course into your life on an ongoing basis)
• all you want to learn is how to evaluate ideas and execute on them. This introductory course focuses more time on introducing you to the concepts of creativity and how to generate as many ideas as possible to solve problems. I may one day work on a course on how to evaluate ideas and execute on them. But this is not it.

What is included in the course:

• Lifetime access to 2+ hours of content
• Tips and tricks from creativity experts such as David and Tom Kelley, Michael Michalko, Roger von Oech, Edward de Bono, Tina Seelig, Thomas Edison, and more
• TONS of exercises! You can't learn how to ride a bicycle just by reading a manual. The same is with creativity. You're going to get your hands (and brains) busy in this course
• A collection of slides, video lectures from experts, audio clippings, images and some home-made animations. I can shamelessly say this was a labour of love!
• Access to me. I will promise to respond to you within 48 hours, pending personal emergencies

Above all, I hope you have lots of fun and learn tons along the way!