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Creating A Thinking World with John Chaffee, Ph.D. @www.thinkingworld.com |
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A Sample Journal Page
February 29th, 2000 "The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward." - Winston Churchill |
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Select areas of your life in which you would like to be more creative: in your job, an activity you enjoy, or your relationship with someone. Make a special effort to infuse a fresh perspective and new ideas into these areas, and keep a record in your Thinking Notebook detailing your efforts and their result. Be sure to allow yourself sufficient time to escape from habitual forms and establish new patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Focus on your creative antennae as you "expect the unexpected," and seize on new ideas when they emerge from the depths of your creative resource. Cultivate the qualities of creativity described here:
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| My Response: "Raising a child well is a challenging job both physically and mentally, demanding an extensive amount of creativity. As a single parent, I try different techniques to encourage my child, thinking of new and exciting ways to keep her focused in her early stages of learning. For example, each month of the year and day of the week has a tale behind it, as I embroider the subject with stories in order to enhance her learning. I play with her by pretending that I am the daughter and she is the mother, which helps me understand how she sees me as a mother and provides her with an opportunity to act out her feelings. I try to stimulate her creativity (and preserve my sanity) by involving her in the process of cooking, giving her the skin from peeled vegetables so she makes her own "soup". Using catalogues, we cut out pictures of furniture, rugs, and curtains, and she pastes them onto cartons to create her own interior décor: vibrant living rooms, plush bedrooms, colorful family rooms. Beautiful bathtub boats are crafted from aluminum paper; we "go bowling" with empty soda cans and a ball; and she stars in "track meets" by running an obstacle course we set up. Creativity is an instinctive drive inside of me that is expressed in so many ways for her: I am a seamstress for Halloween, a counselor for emotional distress, a nurse for life's unavoidable mishaps, a party planner, a gourmet chef, an award-winning teacher, and especially a friend." -Carolyn Miller |
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