Develop your future after graduation

University of East Anglia
Norwich Business School
Management Skills and
Personal Development
NBS-7114A
SEMINAR 1
12 October 2021
Dr. Fahri Karakas
F.Karakas@uea.ac.uk

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ABOUT THIS MODULE
This is an applied vision and skill development module; focusing on the
development of the new skill sets for professionals of the 21st century.
It is designed as a learning environment and a management trainee program
that focuses on the development of knowledge and skills for global leaders.
A core belief underlying our approach, demonstrated in interactive sessions,
stems from the Chinese proverb, “Tell me and I forget. Show me and I
remember. Involve me and I understand.”
We will have intensive brainstorming sessions, professional development
workshops and executive training programs to help you and your colleagues
to develop and apply professional skills for your career in the 21st century.
In today’s global, rapidly changing knowledge based economy, learning and
experimenting with management skills is one of the smartest investments
you can make for your future careers and employability.

About the module
Management Skills and Personal Development
To help you imagine, design, and create your future after
graduation
Module-specific unique features;
Individual customisation
Creative skill development
Project-based learning
Positive change
Imagination
Future focus

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1. Creativity:
 Develop creative and innovative thinking skills
 Learn design thinking tools to advance innovation
 Undertake collective creative and problem solving activities effectively
 Appreciate different thinking styles
2. Personal Development:
 Engage in self reflection
 Plan, monitor and review individual development
 Engage with psychometric testing for recruitment purposes, self-awareness, and team development
 Gain awareness of personal values, beliefs, including emotional intelligence and cultural intelligence
3. Communication:
 Understand the communication process and communicate in a variety of formats; both verbal &
non-verbal
 Design and deliver engaging presentations
 Practice writing clearly and creatively
 Present information about the self: Personal statement, CV
 Experiment with visual, creative, narrative, digital methods

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4. Working with others:
 Engage in team work and collaboration
 Practice project management and design thinking
 Develop leadership skills and knowledge
 Develop cultural intelligence and managing diversity
 Understand and build empathy with different personalities at work
 Develop interpersonal effectiveness through emotional intelligence
5. Employability:
 Improve employability through global vision, continuous learning, personal branding, entrepreneurial thinking,
creativity, and adaptability
 Develop proficiency in navigating the job market and submitting a job application
 Synthesize information from a variety of sources to better assess the self, the job market, global trends,
organizations, and careers
 Engage in self directed learning, personal planning, and design thinking for career management
 Practice and demonstrate the use of relevant transferable skills and competencies in a simulated environment
6. Entrepreneurship:
 Improve employability through personal branding, entrepreneurial thinking, creativity, and adaptability
 Develop proficiency in developing business proposals/plans
 Synthesize information from a variety of sources to better assess the market, business trends, and consumer
needs and develop business ideas

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 Karakas, F. (2019). Self-Making
Studio: An Inspirational Doodle Kit
for Self-Discovery and
Employability. DiPublica.
 https://selfmakingstudio.com/
 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-
Making-Studio-Inspirational-Self-
Discovery-
Employability/dp/173077282X

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 Bolles, R.N. (2020). What Color is Your
Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job
Hunters and Career Changers. Berkeley, CA:
Ten Speed Press.
 Cameron, J. (2016). The Artist’s Way: A
Course in Discovering and Recovering Your
Creative Self. London: Pan Macmillan.
 Burnett, B. and Evans, D. (2016). Designing
Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful
Life. Knopf Publishing.
 Harvard Business Review
 Fast Company
 Wired
 Forbes

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 The module is based on self-directed learning; so independent studies and
exercises will be very critical.
Undertake min. 3 hours of self-directed learning for this module every week:
 Complete the module readings, review lecture and seminar materials, get
prepared for our sessions,
 Do the weekly creative challenge/imagination experiment,
 Do Internet search about business trends and companies that you are interested
in (Your goal: How can you best prepare yourself for your dream job? Think about
how you can develop relevant skills and knowledge.)
 Watch 2 TED Talks (that are interesting and relevant to you) and listen to 2
episodes of BBC Radio 4’s Dessert Island Discs programme (you can choose
among potential mentors or role models based on your passions)
 Document/gather evidence on your personal development, learning, and skill
development to form a portfolio that you can use in your summative assessment
and in your future job applications
 Prepare and build your portfolio quickly

Module assessment
Management Skills and Personal Development
Individual Portfolio (100%) – 9 Dec, 2021
Designing and Creating Your Future

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 This assignment gives you the opportunity to design and create your future
after your UEA MSc programme. You will also reflect on your learning on
the Management Skills and Personal Development module. You will have
the opportunity to draw upon your learning journey and your experience in
activities that you completed individually as well as in your group work.
 You will have a chance to prepare a top-notch portfolio that will help
advance your career after graduation. In doing this, you will have chance to
use and highlight all the skills, perspectives, and knowledge you have
developed in this module. Think of it as a real opportunity for your
learning and experience. Do this project for yourself and for your career
after graduation.

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 Part 1: Job Application Portfolio (20%) (4-6 pages)
 Think of your “dream job” after graduation (your career objectives, your
ideal position, your ideal company).
◦ Suppose your instructor/grader is the HR director of your company. Prepare and submit a
job application package for this job. Differentiate yourself from hundreds of other job
applicants.
 Include the job advertisement and your updated CV, a cover letter, and
poster.
 I. You should find a real job advertisement and attach this job ad. This should be an entry-
level job for new graduates. The job advertisement should clearly specify expected knowledge,
skills, and experiences that are sought for. You will customise your job application (i.e. CV and
Cover Letter) for this job advertisement.
 II. CV: Your professional updated CV – there should be no errors – proofread.
 III. Covering letter: On the covering letter, reflect on why you want this job and why you are
best candidate for this position; along with how you have prepared for this position based on
your learning from this module.
 IV. Poster: On one A4 page, design a poster that will reflect your personal brand. This can
be your creative CV or a mood board (a collage of pictures that inspire you and define your
ideal lifestyle and/or career). You do not need to explain your poster; as it should be self-
explanatory.

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 Part 2: Asset Creation Project (Seven I or Entrepreneurial Proposal)
(25%) (6-8 pages)
 At the heart of your asset creation project is independent thinking and
creativity. We want you to take ownership of your ideas and express them
passionately and eloquently. Structure is less important. How you visualize
and represent your ideas in an engaging and interesting way is more
important. Think of it as an exercise in imagination. We encourage you to
play, create stories, dream of possibilities, and incorporate your own
strengths and passions.
 There is not one best way to create your asset creation project. It is your
playground and you are encouraged to play/experiment with crazy, risky,
creative, imaginative ideas. You can also choose to experiment with your
hobbies that could become parallel careers for you in the future. You will
need to find your own voice and incorporate that voice into your project.
Please choose just one of the options (Seven I or Entrepreneurial Proposal).

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Inspiration. Imagination. Insight. Integration. Inquiry. Innovation. Implementation
◦ This option is about creating creative assets for your future. What are you really curious and passionate about? Think of it as a
“Kickstarter” type of project. Try to demonstrate creativity, originality, reflection, and depth. Use your best creative skills and
talents.
◦ Some of the sample artwork or projects or alternative ideas from past students are below:
 Establish your own YouTube channel, podcast, or blog
 Compose songs and create ideas for your first album
 Create your own fashion line, brand, and catalogue (with sample clothing designs)
 Create your own book proposal and write sample pages and introduction for your book
Your project should have the following sections (each of these should be very focused/brief):
1.Executive summary: Summarize your artwork as an elevator pitch. How does this work represent and document your
learning and skill development in this module?
2. The artwork: Make sure that you capture your artwork through photographs or Internet links; and clearly attach these to
your appendix. It should be very easy for the graders to access your work online – make their job easier, not harder.
3. Description and the process of creation: Why and how did you come up with this work? How did you design and build this
work? Why is this work original and unique? How does it connect to the learning objectives and skills of this module?
4. Explanation and evidence of learning and skill development: Make sure you describe your artwork clearly and make sure you
connect it rigorously with the learning outcomes and skills you have mastered in this module. Explain how this work
constitutes evidence of your learning and skill development.
5. Significance and utility of this work: Where is your contribution? How does this work connect to your personal branding?
How does it connect to your career goals and passions? How can you use this work for your future career?
6. Reaching your fans: Who could be your fans? How do you define your target group? How do you reach your “1000 true fans”?
How can you build your audience for the long term?

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◦ Think of this option as a Shark Tank type of project where you want to present a written entrepreneurial pitch. In this project,
you will imagine yourself as an entrepreneur establishing a business after graduation. You will prepare a focused and creative
entrepreneurial business proposal for your enterprise. Think of this option as an ‘elevator pitch’ where you present your
business idea to potential funders.
◦ As you come up with your business plan, try to identify real problems in society, create innovative
solutions and commercialise those solutions to a target market.
◦ You can create a café, a restaurant, a consulting/training company, a technology company, a social media company and what
not. The sky is the limit. Try to demonstrate creativity, insight, reflection, and depth. Innovation, integration, and synthesis
are critical. Use your best creative skills and talents. What are you really curious and passionate about?
◦ Your business proposal should have the following sections (each of these should be very focused/brief):
1. Executive summary: Summarize your business idea as an elevator pitch. Where is your unique value proposition?
2. Business description: What is your core or your "secret sauce" which is not easily duplicated? How do you define
your sustainable competitive advantage?
3. Your product /service: How do you design and build your product or service? How do you develop the idea, technology and
passion necessary to get started?
4. Market analysis: What about the competition in the market? How do you differentiate your business in this market?
5. Marketing plan: Who are your customers? (A profile of your targeted customer) How do your customers access/reach your
product or service? What is the process for acquiring a targeted customer?
6. Financial/operational plan: What metrics need to be put into place to determine if your product/service is successful (or
not) early in the process? How do you make money? How do you scale to widen and diversify the revenue stream?
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PART 3) Imagination Experiments/Creative Challenges (10%) (3-4 pages):
◦ Read Section 12 of the Module Handbook and read the weekly challenges set up for you.
There is no one right answer – these challenges are mainly about play, creativity, risk-taking,
experimentation, personal voice, and reflection. Companies want to hire candidates who
demonstrate courage, passion, and creativity. These challenges will help you develop a
colourful, creative, and well-rounded profile. You will do these challenges every week. Then,
choose your top two favourite ones and attach them to your coursework.
PART 4) Learning Adventures (10%) (3-4 pages):
Please respond to the following two questions. Please write one short paragraph for each of the
top 8 things (your responses).
1. What are the top 8 things you learned from the lectures in this class?
These could be new insights, perspectives, or lessons. What inspired, excited, surprised, or helped you?
After each lecture, try to reflect on what you have learned from the lecture and write a paragraph. In
your paragraph, you might also briefly explain how you will apply your learning in your life. Please
choose 8 paragraphs and include in this section (Learning Adventures) in your portfolio.
2. What are the top 8 things you changed or improved in your life because of this module?
These could be new habits you adopted, or changes you have made in your life. You can also
talk about new books you have read, new films/videos you have watched, or new topics you
have learned. Keep diary and regularly capture your learning, development, and reflections.

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PART 5) Seminar Appendix Tables:
Incorporation of Seminar Activities and
Relevant Module Skills and Learning
(35%) (10-13 pages)
In this section, please integrate and apply what you
have learned during the seminars in this module. We
want to see how you progressed in terms of skill
development, integration and application of
knowledge, demonstration of learning, and self-
reflection. Please attach 7 of these seminar activities.
 Top 10 Skills Evidence Table
 Evidence Table for Self-Directed Learning Activities
 Flower Exercise Result Sheet
 Choose your own option
 Design Thinking Application
 Creative Toolkit: Café Exercise
 Benchmarking Table
 Business Model Canvas or Personal Branding Canvas
 Six Hats Thinking Application
 Belbin Role Result and Analysis
 Personality Test Result and Analysis
 Your Birthday Challenges
 Time Management Grid
 Personal and Professional Development Plan

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 Create Your Own Assets
◦ Brainstorm on Your Asset Creation Project
 Creative Challenges

Life Advice:
A Poster Guide
Why You Need To
Create Your Own
Assets

HERE IS A PUZZLE:
He was a lawyer. He started staying up late
between 22.00-02.00 every night and
started writing mystery novels. He
finished writing a book every 6 months. He
is one of the best selling mystery novelists
now and published more than 40 books.
David Baldacci

David Baldacci on Mystery & Thrillers

HERE IS THE LESSON:
Super-successful people take a long term view, develop smart
systems of creative work, and they carve out time to create
assets that will make everything enjoyable and profitable.
The strugglers, on the other hand, live from project to project, gig
to gig. They are always too busy or too skint to do the work they
really want to do. It is exhausting and demoralising. They are
depleted.
• Creating your own assets is a marathon
game.
• You need to create your own game:
Navigate blue oceans, carve out your
own niche, create your own category,
and master& own that category.
• Compound yourself (your skills,
knowledge, networks, and assets) over
the long term.

Focus on Creative Assets, not Career Ladder
• If you are a creator, you can create your own assets. Out of thin air. (Plus imagination and
hard work.)
• Some of these assets generate money directly – like a book, an artwork sold on Etsy, an
app, or an album that can be sold.
• Others create non-financial rewards, and/or generate money indirectly – like a YouTube
channel, a podcast, a networking event or a blog.
• If you look at your effort and the time you devote to it, your podcast or YouTube channel
may look like a net loss on your accounts. But looking back over the past few years, you
realise how many clients and projects, not to mention how much fun and friendship, have
come to you because of the podcast or YouTube channel.
• Your avant-garde novel may not sell a million copies, but it may win you the respect of the
discerning audience you are writing for, and connections, opportunities and money may
flow from that.
• So forget the career ladder. Instead, create the kind of assets that will bring you more
creativity, connections, and emotional and financial power in the years ahead.

Creative Assets
• A creative asset is something you create yourself that (a) is worthwhile and satisfying in
itself, and (b) will make life easier, more rewarding, more profitable and/or more fun in
future.
• Most creative assets are intangible; the obvious exceptions are physical artworks and
artisanal works.
Types of creative asset:
• Creative work – your signature asset; your portfolio of the work you are most proud of.
• Social assets – your network; your audience
• Reputation assets – your brand; association with prestigious brands (publishers,
galleries, record labels etc); prizes and awards
• Online assets – a website; a blog; a podcast; a mailing list; a social media profile
• Intellectual property assets – the trademark associated with your brand; the copyright
in your works
• Systemic assets – a productivity system; a business model that generates value for your
customers and your business.
• Business assets – your product range; your company

Keep Doing (Creating)
• We’re all entitled to a day off, but for those of us who desire the best of ourselves,
we’re not entitled to making up the rules. Or rule. In fact, here’s the simple rule of life
that’s been proven time and again:
• The people who operate most efficiently, most effectively and with greatest consistency
win.
• Consistency and repetition are the sharpest tools in the toolkit of winners. Keep doing.
Keep creating and producing. This is what “The Rolling Stones model.” The Rolling
Stones became one of the most famous music groups of all time by making a lot of hit
songs.
• But you know what else The Rolling Stones did? They produced a lot of mediocre and
just so-so songs. A lot. But what do people remember? They remember the hits, the
best stuff. And you have to admire their overall body of work because they kept
churning out the best work they could. They never stopped. They’re still going!
• Keep producing and churning out the best work you can. That may not be viewed as the
best work by others. But it’s a heck of a lot better than doing nothing.

Joe Rogan created more than 4000 podcast episodes. He
signed a deal of $100m with Spotify

Treat 2021 Fall as the semester of ASSET CREATION
In your individual project in the semester, you will be creating
assets for your future.
SEVEN I PROJECT (Kickstarter type project)
ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL (Shark Tank type
project)
• Think about the assets you want to
create for your future
• Do not think like a student. Do not
treat this as assignment.
• Do this for your own future.
• Do something real – create something
real and fresh.

Lessons From
My Own Journey of
ASSET CREATION

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What I Learned from Publishing 222 Articles on Medium (January 2020)
https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/what-i-learned-from-writing-222-articles-on-medium-
42f3ec6129af?sk=285f371e5406582815e08227b48da070
What I Learned from Publishing 200 Articles on Medium (December 2020)
 https://medium.com/illumination/what-i-learned-from-publishing-200-articles-on-medium-
78ce8e2153d3?sk=a8df96c6cd0e1dbad10918a115c363fd
What I Learned from Publishing 150 Articles on Medium (September 2020)
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What I Learned from Publishing 100 Articles on Medium (July 2020)
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Invest in Your Medium Content Shop
If you write consistently and grow it for a decade, you will be like Walmart.
 https://medium.com/2-minute-madness/invest-in-your-medium-content-shop-
fef0cc64a393?sk=b6dc357aa52e7ff99f0b866daf5ea05b

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https://www.youtube.com/c/FahriKarakas

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https://www.youtube.com/c/H2MTv1

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https://selfmakingstudio.com/
https://www.https://selfmakingstudio.com
/amazon.co.uk/Self-Making-Studio-
Inspirational-Self-Discovery-
Employability/dp/173077282X/

My Promise to You: I will also create alongside you
I will work very hard to kick-start my second book project.
My goal is to start writing/drawing/creating my second book (after
Self-Making Studio).
I will also write a new Medium article every day or every 2
days.
• I will be accountable to you.
• Please ask me to report to you:
• What did you do for your book, Fahri?
• Please keep me accountable – be
harsh and question me.

HERE IS A PUZZLE:
He quit his job and decided to travel the
world. Every day, he created 1-minute
travel/inspiration videos on Facebook. He
did this for 1000 days non-stop. Who is he?
Hint: His videos end with
“That’s one minute, see you soon"
Nas Daily (Nuseir Yassin)

Nas Daily: 1000 Days of Video Creation!

Don’t Bother Waiting For Inspiration.
It’s Not Coming.
• You need grit, struggle and urgency.
• The cold reality is that sometimes, it’s a real struggle to get your best work into the
world.
• That’s why so many of us admire great creators, artists and thinkers but so few of
us will ever become one.
• If you wait to be inspired to do your best work, you’ll be waiting a long time.
Possibly forever.
• Waiting for inspiration is an amateur move. It’s not coming today. It may never. It’s
not coming to you. But you can seek it out.
• The solution: start the work now.
• Do it on the sunny days and the rainy days. Stop giving yourself a “pass” to leave
your gifts on the table unopened. Stop allowing yourself the excuse not to create.
• Push through the uncomfortable stage
• Struggle actually leads to more inspiration
• You don’t get inspired, then do great work. You do great work, then get
inspired.

HERE IS THE LESSON:
Seek out small victories. Small victories build new receptors
in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and
motivation. This increase in receptors enhances confidence
and eagerness to tackle challenges. When you achieve a
series of small victories, the boost in your confidence can last
for months.
Small and consistent actions/habits every day is key.
• Be consistent and disciplined – create
every day – do not break the chain.
• If you establish smart habits every
day, you will achieve a lot in the long
run.
• Compound yourself (your skills,
knowledge, networks, and assets) over
the long term.

LESSON
Failures of
Imagination

Take-away
•Use your semester project as an
opportunity to create your own
intellectual and creative assets.
•Your most crucial task is: Create
your own creative assets. Start
now!

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 25% of your individual portfolio is “Your
Asset Creation Project”.
 The word limit for this part of your portfolio
is 3000 words (The other parts are not
counted).
 Decide which option you will be doing for
the 25% of your individual portfolio
◦ Option A: Seven I Project
◦ Option B: Entrepreneurial Business Proposal

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 Start creating ideas about your coursework
 Come up with at least half a dozen of ideas
that you can choose from
 Do some initial preparation, research and
brainstorming
 Bring some ideas to work with to the next
seminar (next week)
 You will be working on your ideas in the
upcoming seminars.

HERE IS A PUZZLE:
He loved playing games. He turned it into a
passion. He is a legend on Fortnite.
He now makes $500,000 a month by playing
games.
His wife is his manager.
He is the world’s most famous gamer.
His net worth is more than $20 million.
He was chosen to Time 100. Who is he?
NINJA (Tyler Blevins)

How Ninja makes $500,000 per month playing Fortnite

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You will choose Seven I or Entrepreneurial Proposal.
Start working on your asset creation project.
Remember: You need to implement it and share it with
the world.
You will include your asset creation project (3000 words)
in your individual portfolio due on December 9.

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 A) Please write a story using the following words:
◦ Pepper
◦ Fashion
◦ Journey
◦ Chaos
◦ Lawyer
◦ Bird
◦ Disgust
◦ Dancing
 B) Please illustrate this story. You can doodle or
draw in any way that you like. You can create a
storyboard or a comic story. Do as you wish!

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 Imagine that you are given an 8th day every week. This day
will be your secret gift. However, this cannot be just another
day. You have to do something unusual or remarkable on
this day.
 A) Please design this day as your ideal day. How would you
make these 8th days memorable, creative, and full of
adventure? You can write or draw or doodle on this as you
wish.
 B) This will also be a day where you have an artist's date with
yourself (See Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way" to learn more
about this method). Fill your day with lots of inspiration. Get
inspiration from lots of sources. What could be some of
these sources? Brainstorm below. You can consider places,
people, films, books, artwork, travel, hobbies, theatre,
museums, cafes, nature, and more.

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 A) Walk around the city of Norwich. You need your cell phone and
an attentive eye for this project. Pay attention to the doors of
Norwich. This project is all about doors:) Please find at least 12
different doors (of different styles, periods, colours etc.). Take
their photographs. Tag each or give each a creative title. Did you
learn new things that you have not realised before? What are they?
 B) Imagine that one of these doors open to your childhood. Go
down on your memory lane and find a sweet memory from your
childhood. Where were you? How old were you? What were you doing?
Were you alone or accompanied by others? Describe your memory with
all the details - make it vivid and rich. Write it down as a story.
Why did you choose this memory? Reflect on its significance for
you.

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 A) Please go on a treasure hunt for 8 of the images below and
capture them with your phone or camera.
An animal in a cloud
A UEA bunny
Spirals in nature
Your reflection on a glass or window
A plate of food that you have organized to make a portrait (such as human face)
Colourful flower patterns on clothing
A dinosaur in a human-made object
A person who looks like s/he belongs to another century
Two inanimate objects that appear to be in love
The ugliest image you have seen this week
A close-up of a paper sculpture or an origami object
The most interesting sidewalk or walkway patterns you come across this week
The funniest advertisement image (or message or poster) you have come across this week
The above are only suggestions. You can also photograph other interesting images that come up. The pictures don’t
have to be literal representations. They also don’t have to look good—as a matter of fact, the less perfect, the better.
Close up blurs are welcome. Work quickly without thinking too much. You don’t need to spend more than 20-25
minutes on this unless, of course, you just can’t help yourself. Feel free to take friends on your treasure hunt. Chances
are they will see things that you don’t.
 B) Create a collage work or a mood board or an artwork using these photographs. Feel
free to add photos from your own collection. Feel free to digitally alter or manipulate
photos or create mashups. Give a title to your artwork. Please write an artist's
description of your work.

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 Imagine that you come across yourself in a cafe in London. You
are shocked at first, but then you realize that this is YOU living in
an alternative universe. The other version of yourself invites you
for coffee. You will catch up and have a conversation about your
lives. You are intrigued.
 A) Please write a long and detailed description of the other you
living an alternative life.
◦ Where does s/he live? Imagine all the details - family, career, house,
friends, projects, travel etc. If you want to retain some (indispensible)
elements from your current life, that is fine. However, this must be a
different life. An alternative life that is exciting and full of more adventure
perhaps?
 B) Draw or doodle about your alternative life. You can design it
visually or come up with a concept map.
 C) Imagine the conversation you are having with your alternative
self. Write down that conversation.

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 A) National Geographic approached you and gave you a huge
task: Create a map of the unknown continent of the
HEART. Create that map.
 B) National Geographic loved your map and gave you another
project: Create a map of the unknown continent of the
MIND. Create that map.
 C) How can you go from the heart to the mind? And vice versa?
Allow your hands to move – imagine that they have a mind of their own.
Work quickly without thinking too much.
Do not judge the quality of your drawings. Just play.

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 Please respond to the following questions:
1. When did you last feel curious, playful, and excited?
2. How can you increase these ‘magical moments’ in your daily
life?
3. If money was not a factor, how would you spend your life?
4. If you were able to take one year out to learn a new skill, what
would you learn? Why?
5. If your life were 120 years long and you would choose four
different careers, what would you like to do? Imagine four scenarios
(think of lives or jobs that would be fun and exciting to have).
6. If you do not worry about failure or self-image, what might
you try doing?
7. If you could only work 1 hour for your creative project on one
day; what would you do during that hour?

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 Please respond to the following questions (you will find 10
different answers each time).
1. If I did not have to do it perfectly ……..
8. If I did not have to do it perfectly ……
10. If I did not have to do it perfectly …….

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 Fill in the Blanks (10 times, each will be a different answer):
1. A risk that I would like to take is……

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 You will revisit your failures in various aspects of your life. You need to be
very honest with yourself about failures. If you want to lead an interesting
life, you will be taking risks and face failure all the time. Failures can be
viewed as stepping stones - they can be turned into learning.
 Find and revisit these failures or U TURNS in your life: Something happened
or it did not work. You changed approach, pivoted, or dropped it entirely
perhaps? What happened?
A) Entrepreneurship or Professional Work
or Career
 What were the challenges?
 How did you resolve (or fail to resolve) the challenges?
 What did or did not work?
 How would you do it differently next time?
Going Forward: Identify one small action in each domain that you can
implement in your life. How will you go forward? Identify your action plan
and write down an action for each domain above.

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 You will revisit your failures in various aspects of your life. You need to be very
honest with yourself about failures. If you want to lead an interesting life, you will be
taking risks and face failure all the time. Failures can be viewed as stepping stones -
they can be turned into learning.
 Find and revisit these failures or U TURNS in your life: Something happened or it did
not work. You changed approach, pivoted, or dropped it entirely perhaps? What
happened?
B) Creativity and Arts (music, visual arts, film,
theatre, crafts, dance, writing, and design)
 Please re-visit each area above - one by one.
 What were the challenges?
 How did you resolve (or fail to resolve) the challenges?
 What did or did not work?
 How would you do it differently next time?
 Share your reflections.
Going Forward: Identify one small action in each domain that you can
implement in your life. How will you go forward? Identify your action plan and
write down an action for each domain above.

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You will write yourself two letters. You will imagine that you are 80
in the first letter. You will imagine that you are 8 in the second
letter.
A) The first letter: From your 80-year old self to your current self.
What words of advice and encouragement would this 80 year old,
wise, loving, content version of you, with the benefit of hindsight,
send to the you of today – what guidance would you offer yourself?
B) The second letter: From your 8-year old self to your current self.
•What would your child self tell your current self? Reminders?
Advice? Wisdom? Principles? What is important?

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 There are 36 fantasy challenges below (6*6). You can choose 6 of the 36 mini fantasy
challenges below and implement them. You can also choose any mix you prefer. For example, you
can go on 1 fantasy adventure from each link below. In total, you will go on 6 adventures/fantasies.
 1. Create six fantastic adventures set in virtual reality
 https://medium.com/the-innovation/create-six-fantastic-adventures-set-in-virtual-reality-
c5a89d0eaa8e?source=friends_link&sk=7a2f0ffed0901fa6021b586351b14f6b
 2. Create six epic adventures set in outer space
 https://medium.com/the-innovation/create-six-epic-adventures-set-in-outer-space-
c903c471799?source=friends_link&sk=013d0a3074417338c022237b63ba7469
 3. Imagine you can be part of any fantasy universe
 https://medium.com/the-innovation/imagine-you-can-be-part-of-any-fantasy-universe-
ee9d5a4c7c66?source=friends_link&sk=629595f0d3675efe998080dc5f98163c
 4. Imagine you can travel back to any period in world history
 https://medium.com/the-innovation/imagine-you-can-travel-back-to-any-period-in-world-
history-5fda34e8326a?source=friends_link&sk=ff1fef995d1a5500b37c51739e1671c9
 5. Imagine you can travel to the future (any future period and location)
 https://medium.com/the-innovation/imagine-you-can-travel-to-the-future-any-future-period-
and-location-10334bcf61f3?source=friends_link&sk=d16706bedd31a8008f5993d0f9b179a2
 6. Imagine you will go on six adventures in six countries
 https://medium.com/the-innovation/imagine-you-will-go-on-six-adventures-in-six-countries-
43d53675a947?source=friends_link&sk=331356c413d1d354f5280b7b9a9753c1

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You will choose 2 of these 11 challenges
Please complete your selected challenges.
You will attach them in your individual portfolio due on
Dec 9, 2021.

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