How to develop characters

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Speech 

What someone says reveal their character, intelligence and mentality. If they swear they are angry. If they sigh, sad!. If they clutter, nervous! and so on...

When they say nothing also also says something about them. When they avoid talking about a crime, could be guilty!
Speech also matter how they say it.
Characters vocal tone, speed, cluttering tells much about a character. A rich person speak clearly and arrogantly. If someone hesitates, he is unsure or lying.

Thoughts
A person's thoughts tells about the person. Monologues are used in plays and movies to expose thoughts. (Self expression). Thinking is based someones beliefs and values.

Emotions
Emotions are outcome of internal thoughts. Emotions expose someones inner feelings. Emotions most expressed in body language and voice tones. Crying, Anger, Looks, Postures Feelings expose emotions of the character. Emotions are results of external effects on characters personality and personal goals, ambitions and aspirations. Creating emotions creates emotions in audience. It is the essence of a story and your plot.

 Effects on others
The interactions with others shows a great deal about a character.
Personal, Social and Business interactions may based on empathy and social understanding. The effect on others shown with reactions   of others to a character. It says a lot about them. Are they friends or enemies. They they care for each other or not?

Actions

The actions of the character is driven by their inner feelings, how they react to a situation and relationship with other characters they are interacting with. A mother will blame talented daughter and praise some one opposite. A may boast about favourite teacher and bully an innocent girl. From the actions the true character emerges, like in real world.Actions under stress changes a person. Stress is test of personality and help audience reveals more of the character.

Looks
Looks of a person exposes the character. Yet appearances can be made deceptive in characters. A person may look like a girl to gain access to girls school. Looks are not only dress.  Facial expressions and  body language reveals intentions of the character fear, happiness and loneliness are shown from eyes. Looks also created with dress and outfit.  It can reveal social class, occupation, locality, values as well as sense of passion.


The characters that appear in stories described 2D or 3D. The 3D character is more realistic. The 2D  character is flat and relatively lifeless.

Character types in Movies

These are some titanic characters

Think of a story, a movie or a novel touched your heart
and identify these characters.

Heroic
Posses strong values with higher ideologies. They put others needs first. Have high personal integrity. We respect heroic characters. We want to be like them. They protect and rescue us.  Very good, Brave, Caring, Devoted, Risk Taking, Intelligent, Friendly,  Strong, Careful, Alert 


Villain
They are viscous Power hungry, break laws, selfish purpose. Harm others. we find them wrong. We hate them. They hate heros. They abuse sympathetic characters and the innocent. We like to see them punished.

Wise

They are knowledgeable. They know what do do in difficult situations. Great advisers. Act as mentors to the heroes. Well read, visionary, parents, teachers.

Faithful
Take duty serious. Trustworthy and followers of the heroic character no matter what. Ones faithful to the villain become unwise. We respect faithful characters for their devotion.


Innocent
They become victim of the plot, easily become hurt by unsympathetic people. The audience feels sympathy for them. Probably remind our own experiences of getting hurt. No one to talk to, restricted, work for others happyness.

Sympathetic
We associate them forming a bonds and share experiences. We share some common attributes. Devoted and Caring,  

Unsympathetic characters
They have qualities that we dislike. Friends of  villain. Take sides for own benefits. Liars, Cheaters. Not caring. Loves money.  

Human
Very human. Fragile and weaknesses leads to unwise choices. They are not bad but not like heroic people. They are shameful, Jelouss as well as loving and caring. Difficult to predict and they remind us of our own shortcomings.



Foolish
They are the opposite of wise characters. They get into trouble and unable to use knowledge be to good effect. We laugh at the fool. We secretly grateful that there are more foolish than us.
False
They pretends to be someone who they are actually not. They deceive people and untruthful. We like to see them exposed and become ashamed.

Selfish
Selfish only focus on their own benefit.  Careless of others who are affected by their choices. There selfishness goes beyond social acceptance.  

Animal
Opposite of human characters. Show inhuman characteristics. Savageness is common. Audience become shocked for the lack of humanity in them. Animals used by Villains against heroic characters.

Neutral characters
They are neither sympathetic not sympathetic. They do their duty of their roles without taking any interest of right or wrong. They are more observers, serves anyone.

Guardians
Guardians have access to some treasure. They make hero take some challenges. Hero can reach treasure after a task done or solve a problem or have to fight the guardian. Guardians provides a entertainment as hero who must get past them.

Enforcers
Police officers, soldiers, law makers who ensure law and order. They capture and punish the offenders. Enforces could be with the Hero or with villain.

Bystanders
They are not really in the story as important characters. They are not typically neutral, sometimes take sides of hero or villain.  They are many in the cast.

Ambiguous characters
They keep us guessing whether they will be good or bad.

Uncertain
Uncertain characters act in random ways. We can never tell what they would do next. Their actions are difficult to predict.

Flawed
Flawed characters are good in many ways but have some weaknesses. They are never on time. Never resist a drink or a pretty woman. They get into trouble easy. But they reach their goal at the end. We sympathize flawed characters and forgive them. Sympathetic antagonists are created this way.

Fickle
They are funny. The add tension or fun to the story. Their help us  discover important details and clues in the story. They have a sense of perfection. They are the friend of hero and help find the short comings of villain.

Two-dimensional characters
They are perfect. They fit neatly in story with  no history and predictable, quite non-social and stereo type.
 

Three-dimensional characters
They are flawed and have their own stories within the story. They have a unique past and unpredictable, acts illogically, Quirky, a social person.

How to create a plot

A plot is formed by your character's motivations. 

Put a lot of emphasis on the creation of your character.
You need to develop your character’s personality
You need to know how your characters will react to events in your story?

The girl in the story is beatiful, has a wonderfull voice,
creative and heroic, yet sensitive and breaking.

give villain a motivation. 

Think about the unmarried untie of the girl, 
who want's the girl to stop singing (like step-mom of Cinderella story).

Think about a teacher who does not like beautiful girls
as she her young life had been disaster of beauty,
and she likes to break the hearts of beatifull and talented girls.

Put yourself into the characters shoes 
What would they say in a situation?
What would the do or how would they react in a situation?

pace your story - flow like a river 
A dramatic event after dramatic event makes story boring and repetitive

Use emotions to surprise your audience.

Use range of emotions because human emotions are like rollercoasters
We dont feel the same thing for years after years do we?
We feel happy sometimes and upset at others,

Consider your characters humanity.
Bring anger, happyness, jelousy, depression in the plotting

Emotions are the various bodily feelings associated with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation. Motivations direct and energize human behavior. Emotions provide the affective component to positive or negative motivation

Some imotions. 
Affection, Anger, Annoyance, Anxiety,Arousal
Boldness, Boredom, Contentment, Curiosity,
Depression, Desire, Disappointment, Disgust, Distrust, Dread
Ecstasy, Embarrassment, Excitement
Fear, Fearlessness, Frustration, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt
Happiness, Hatred, Hope, Horror, Hostility, Hurt
Indifference, Interest, Jealousy, Joy, Loneliness
Love, Lust, Misery, Panic, Passion, Pity
Pleasure, Pride, Rage, Regret, Sadness, Satisfaction, Shame,
Shock, Shyness, Sorrow, Suffering, Surprise
Terror, Trust, Wonder, Worry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion

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Glen C. Strathy's  8 Steps Plot

Glen's emotionally compelling plot structure incorporates 8 plot elements.

1. Story Goal
The plot of any story is a sequence of events  that constitute an attempt to solve a problem or attain a goal.
Story goal is about what the protagonist wants to achieve or the problem he/she wants to resolve.

2. Consequence
Ask yourself, “What would happen if the goal is not achieved? The Consequence is the negative situation or event that will result if the Goal is not achieved. Avoiding the Consequence justifies the effort required in pursuing the Story Goal,it is an important part of your plot outline. The combination of goal and consequence creates the main dramatic tension in your plot and makes the story meaningful.

3. Requirements
Requirements, describes what must be accomplished in order to achieve the goal. This is a checklist of events. As the Requirements are met in the story, the audience will feel the characters are getting closer to the goal.
Ask yourself what event(s) might need to happen for the goal in your story  to be achieved. List as many possibilities as you can think of.


4. Forewarnings
Forewarnings are the counterpart to requirements. While requirements show that the story is progressing towards the achievement of the goal, forewarnings are events that show the consequence is getting closer. Forewarnings make the reader anxious that the consequence will occur before the protagonist can succeed.

In the plot outline for our story, events that could constitute Forewarnings might be...

* the company loses one of its key employees to another firm that was more family-friendly.

* the protagonist has a series of bad dates that make it seem like she will never find the right guy.

* the protagonist meets a woman at a singles club who tells her that at their age all the good men are already married.

* one of the protagonist's friends goes through a messy divorce, showing that marriage may not be the source of happiness it's purported to be.

While the Story Goal and Consequences create dramatic tension, Requirements and Forewarnings take the reader through an emotional roller coaster that oscillates between hope and fear. There will be places in the plot where it seems the protagonist is making progress, and others where it seems that everything is going wrong. Structure these well, and you will keep your reader turning pages non-stop.

For example, here's how our plot outline might look so far ...

"A female executive in her late 30s has been married to her job. But she has a wake-up call when her elderly, spinster aunt dies alone and neglected (consequence). The executive decides that she needs to have a family before she suffers the same fate (goal). In order to do this, she hires a dating service and arranges to go on several dates (requirements). But each date ends in disaster (forewarnings)."

As you can see, using just these four elements, a story plot is starting to emerge that will take the reader on a series of emotional twists and turns. And we're only halfway through our 8 plot elements! (Of course, we started with the four most important ones.)

Notice too that these elements come in pairs that balance each other. This is an important secret for creating tension and momentum in your plot.

Before moving on to the remaining elements, list some possible events that could serve as Forewarnings in your story. For now, just choose one. See if you can create a brief plot outline like the example above using just the first four elements.

5. Costs

Generally speaking, good plots are about problems that mean a lot to the characters. If a problem is trivial, then neither the protagonist nor the reader has a reason to get worked up about it. You want your readers to get worked up about your novel. So you must give your protagonist a goal that matters.
One sign that a problem or goal matters to the protagonist is that he/she is willing to make sacrifices or suffer pain in order to achieve it. Such sacrifices are called Costs.

Classic examples of Costs include the hard-boiled detective who gets beaten up at some point in his investigation, or the heroic tales in which the hero must suffer injury or give up a cherished possession to reach his goal. However, Costs can come in many other ways. Protagonists can be asked to give up their pride, self-respect, money, security, an attitude, an idealized memory, the life of a friend, or anything else they hold dear. If you make the costs steep and illustrate how hard the sacrifice is for the protagonist, the reader will feel that the protagonist deserves to achieve the goal.

In the case of our female executive, perhaps she must give up a promotion she has worked hard for because it would require her to travel so much that she would have no chance of settling down and raising a family.

Make a list of possible Costs your protagonist might be forced to endure in order to achieve the Story Goal. Again, just choose one idea to include in your plot outline for now.

6. Dividends

The element that balances Costs in your plot outline is Dividends. Dividends are rewards that characters receive along the journey towards the Story Goal. Unlike Requirements, Dividends are not necessary for the goal to be achieved. They may be unrelated to the goal entirely. But they are something that would never have occurred if the characters hadn't made the effort to achieve the goal.
In the case of our executive, perhaps her efforts to meet men give her an idea for creating a business of her own – a kind of executive dating service, for instance, that will lead her to a happier career. Or perhaps the quest for love and family forces her to become more compassionate towards her co-workers when their family responsibilities interfere with work.

List possible ways to reward your characters and choose one that feels appropriate for your plot outline. Then move on to our final pair of elements.

7. Prerequisites

Prerequisites are events that must happen in order for the Requirements to happen. They are an added layer of challenges to your plot outline. Like Requirements, as Prerequisites are met, the reader feels progress is being made towards the goal. For instance, in order to free the Princess, the hero must recovery the key from its hiding place, but first (Prerequisite) he must defeat the dragon guarding it. In order to win the maiden's hand, the gallant suitor must show he would not risk losing her for anything. But before he has a chance to do that, he must show he is willing to risk everything to win her (Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice).
If the Requirement for our novel about the executive is that she must go out on several dates, perhaps the Prerequisite is that she must sign up at a dating service, buy a new wardrobe, or get a make-over.

Take a look at your chosen Requirement and make a list of possible Prerequisites that must be accomplished before the requirement can be met. Choose one.

8. Preconditions

The last element to balance your plot outline, Preconditions, is a junior version of Forewarnings. Preconditions are small impediments in the plot. They are stipulations laid down by certain characters that make it more difficult for the Story Goal to be achieved.
A classic example is Pride and Prejudice in which Elizabeth's quest for happiness is made more difficult by the terms of her grandfather's will, which state that the family property can only be inherited by males. This means that, upon her father's death, Elizabeth and her sisters will be penniless unless they find good husbands first.

However there are many other ways characters can impose conditions that impede the attainment of the Story Goal. They can make their help conditional on favours, insist on arduous rules, or negotiate tough terms.

For instance, perhaps the company where our female executive works has a rule that executives must attend meetings very early in the day - say 6AM on Saturdays. This rule makes it very hard for her to go on Friday night dates and be alert in the meetings. Or perhaps the singles club she joins has some seemingly unfair rules that cause her problems.

You know what to do by now. List possible Preconditions your characters might encounter, and choose one you like.

Organizing Your Plot Summary


 Once you have chosen your eight elements, the next step is to arrange them into a brief plot summary. It doesn't matter what order you put them in, so long as all eight are included. In fact, most of the elements can be repeated or included in more than one way.
For example, here's how we might put together all eight elements for our executive story together into a one-paragraph plot outline...

“A female executive in her late 30s has been married to her job. But she has a wake-up call when her elderly, spinster aunt dies alone and neglected (consequence). The executive decides that she needs to have a family before she suffers the same fate (goal). So she buys a new wardrobe and signs on with a dating service (prerequisites). Her boss offers her a promotion that would involve a lot of travel, but she turns it down, so that she will have time to meet some men (cost). She goes on several dates (requirements). But each one ends in disaster (forewarnings). On top of that, because the agency arranges all her dates for Friday nights, she ends up arriving tired and late for the company's mandatory 6AM Saturday morning meetings (preconditions). Along the way, however, she starts to realize how the company's policies are very unfair to people with families or social lives outside work, and she begins to develop compassion for some of her co-workers that leads to improved relationships in the office (dividend).”

How to create and idea for film story

create an interesting idea
do thought-generating exercises. (brainstorm)
you don't need to make a story at the beginning

start new idea with anything:
a phrase, a person, an experience or a situation

make it exciting and inspiring to you to create a story.

Story building method 

• Take an hour to write your idea in one-sentence
  Write as many ideas until you have an inspiring idea.
  Try the idea generator online, but create your own!

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=storygen

• Expand your sentence into a one page story
  have a start, conflicts and the ending.
• Write a summary of the characters of the story.Start with main character and sub characters
• Expand the character with details.
  Write everything about each character.
  
  Make a synopsis from your work.
• Make a list of scenes of your story as a list.
• Describe each scene 
  place, time, people involved, happenings.
• Write your script now
  dialog and camera shots
• Create Your Storyboard

What is one an mind is only an idea.It becomes a story when you have written it.

The most important element in a story
is about characters and conflict.
Let's think of a story of a girl strugglling to gain freedom.
Now ask yourself questions to create her character with a conflict.

• Who is she? 
• What does she want? 
• What is obstructing her getting what she want? 

Character + conflict = story idea.Write that idea down.
Now transform your idea into a story plot.

Oh! now you face the hard part.
How to transform your high-level idea to a real story?
How do you turn it into a good plot?

The best is to start with the ending first. 

Ask your self; What happens to our girl at the end?

Think about your characters in deep,
associate them in your mind.
Virtually read their secret diaries.

What are their outer looks?
dark or fair? tall or short? modern or traditional?
likes and dislikes ? values and restrictions? skills and hobbies?
who are their associates (friends, families)
what are their hidden secrets?
What are their life experiences, needs, and desires.

Building the plot points

Take your characters and put them together
and see how they would interact with each other.

Create Friends, enemies, mentors, betrayers, saviors

Create incidents 
The girl impress everyone in a music competition but looses due to favourism.

Arrange your plot points into a story arc.


A 5 part model for a story:

Exposition
Shows the the normal life of the the character
until an "inciting incident" that creates a conflict.
The girl's home and school life shown.
She is not allowed to go on a trip with class

Rising Action
The character faces conflicts, struggles, and pitfalls
while trying to pursue their goals.
The girl fights to get freedom, but no result

ClimaxThe conflict comes to highest point at this point. 
At this point all seems possible or impossible.
The charater must must decide whether to go for it or fail and loose.
The girl desides to take part in a music competition.

Falling ActionThings start unfolding after the climax, the character wins or loses.
She looses the competition, but her song becomes a global hit

DenouementThe character begins a new life,
her family accepts their fault and get together again.
It could be another way also.
It's upto you to create the ending.

Work forward and backward.
Never afraid to change around or redevelop your plot.

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1.9 How to be more creative - Six principles of creativity

• Develop Knowledge - explore and immerse in idea
• Construct the Problem (Idea) - Construct the real problem not what it seems
• Use Emotions - use emotions to be creative.
• Combine concepts - combine problems to develop single concept
• Abstraction - Start seeing problem more clearly
• Wander your mind - think flexibly on solutions

           Apply these principles   
           in everyday creativity.

1.8 Why Creative ideas are confronted by others ?

Creativity is like an engine of imagination that help us discover or create science, art and industry. Creativity is the fundamental driving force of positive change emerges through intelligence, wisdom, and  goodness.


The society value creativity hence want more creative people, more creative ideas and solutions. But when an idea is new and it's nonconformance with existing beliefs creates feeling of uncertainty by others.


Experiments have found that when people feel uncertain they would more likely to have negative thoughts about creative ideas and find difficult to recognise creative ideas.


Democritus (460-370 BC), the greek phyloshpher who is considered to be the “father of modern science”,   promulgated the atomic theory. He said that the universe is composed of atoms and voids in which they exist and move. His new idea was rejected by other Greek philosophers for the rest of his life. His idea was rejected because of their novelty and nonconformance with existing beliefs that created feeling of uncertainty by others.




“Airplanes are interesting toys for hobbyists but of no military value.”(Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre / French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918).




Robert Goddard's idea of modern rocket propulsion was not accepted by his peers who thought his ideas are ludicrous and impossible. Today all rockets use his principal.


Apple founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, offered to build their personal computer for Hewlett-Packard. They offered to build it for HP for just salary. However HP rejected their offer saying that Steeve is not yet out of collage.


Ken Olsen, the founder of DELL, thought the idea of a personal computer is absurd, saying “there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”


Pierrre Pachet,  a renowned physiology professor of bilogy declared, “Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.”


Every company in USA rejected Chester Carlson’s invention of xerography (photo copier), saying that  “carbon paper is so cheap and plentifull”


Yale University management professor gave  Fred Smitha ‘C’ for his paper proposal to provide overnight delivery service saying that it is not a feasible idea, but Freds idea became Federal Express (Fedex).


Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 said.”Everything that can be invented has been invented.”






“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” said David Sarnoff’s associates, in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.


“TV won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first 6 months.  People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”(Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox, 1946).

1.7 Developing your creative insights

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything." ~George Lois


Try imagining your creative task as distant and disconnected from your current location. This should encourage higher level thinking.


Imagine yourself forward in time; view your creative task from one, ten or a hundred years distant.


Our minds are desperate and hungry for new and absurdity in experiences. Read Alice in Wonderland, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis like other absurd masterpieces. 


Negative emotions states can creativity killers, but try to find ways to use them to boost creativity, you might be surprised by what happens.


People take path of least resistance for creativity by building on existing ideas. However if you take path of most resistance can lead to more creative solutions. Try off-road and less beaten paths.



Combining opposites is called 'Janusian thinking' (Janus is the many-faced Roman god). It sets up ridiculous combinations and see what happens.


Re-conceptualise your ideas from the fundamentals. Forget the solution for sometime, concentrate on the fundemental problem and ask right questions.


Apply creativity in everyday life in everything you do and you would
enjoy it.



Following are some techniques

1. Develop a Counter factual mindset
Think what could be taken out to improve something or a situation.
Think what could be added to improve something or situation.


2. Accept two problems are better than one
Recall similar problems that you or someone has solved before to help you solve the current problem.Gather all complication they will help exercise and expand your memory.


3. Develop Generic verbs
Write down the problem specific verbs to more generic ones, to reduce the problem to concepts from detail.


4. Argue the problem
People think better when they are arguing. They become broad minded by listning and more creative. Experts say when people engaged in a conflict generate more original ways of arguing.


5. Fall in love with your idea
Love creates stimulus helping our minds zoom out to new means. 


6. Stop daydreaming all the time
Just start doing it!


We perform our best when our mind and body are in sync, as our thoughts become tied to our actions. It help us make decisions much faster. This is good for general activities we do everyday as we tend to follow protocols and repeat what we have being doing. But if you want to be creative get your  minds going one way and bodies going the otherway. Recall a happy time when crying. Recall sad memories while smiling. Mind-body de-sync help us move outside of our comfort zone making new responses.


Creative individuals are more likely to be arrogant, little crazy and said to be bit eccentric.


Lies
People pay to view lies in TV, Films and Novels. Stephan Spillberg made an alien falling love with a group of kids in E.T. People sometimes enjoy lies when it is entertaining than reality. 


Arrogance
Creative people are more open to new experiences and arrogant. You need to develop strong attitude of protecting your creative ideas.


Crazy!
Experts say that there is link between madness and creativity. They are able to imagine things outside norms, link mis-fitting things, change things up-sides down due to ecentricity

1.6 The Creative Thinking for problem solving.

The five-step process to solve problems is used by many of us. 


1. Set a Goal
2. Start Creative Thinking
3. Prioritize Actions
4. Plan and Take Action
5. Evaluation Impact


1. Determine a goal. 
It’s important to have a firm, targeted goal before you go to the next step. You need to reflect back on the goal periodically to make sure what you are after still makes sense.




2. Start creative thinking process
Group together and generate as many new and creative ideas as you can. New solutions and creative ideas come as many alternatives. Take your time and generate as many ideas as you can. When you have more ideas you have a better chance of finding better solution. 




3. Prioritize your ideas.
Become a good critic, work with others come out of list of actions.


4. Plan and take your actions
Success to creative problem solving is to spend a lot more time generating innovative ideas before trying to build a plan around them. 


5. Evaluate your results. 
Remember when some actions fail, don't abandon it. Find what changes could make it happen.


This is a systematic process to generate new ideas suggested by  Tony Schwartz the author of Be Excellent at Anything


1. Saturation: start  reading widely and deeply, and then sorting, evaluating, sinthesizing, outlining, and prioritizing.


2. Incubation: Develop your ideas further, refine it , document it


3. Illumination: The Ah-ha moments. They are spontaneous, intuitive. 


4. Verification: Check your idea with others, systems


Creative Thinking Exercises



"Creative thinking is inclusive thinking. You consider the least obvious as well as the most likely approaches, and you look for different ways to look at the problem. It is the willingness to explore all approaches that is important, even after one has found a promising one."
Michael Michalko

1.5 The creative process

The creative process in film making involves a collaborative process, even one person credited for it.


1. Generate a new Idea
2. Review it critically
3. Develop the final idea
4. Get feedback from third party
5. Revise the idea


 creative process involves the application of past experiences or ideas in novel ways .




"The creative process involves a free flow of information such that ideas are thrown off almost randomly and with some degree of reckless abandon. Some are kept, some are tabled, some are discarded, and some are combined with others. The process can be structured or improvised, planned or spontaneous, consciously executed or subconsciously derived. The number of ideas that are generated tends to be a function of the amount of information gathered during the perception phase(s)."    More ...

1.4 Optimizing your mind power

Your mind is able to generate powerful ideas when you use the problem solving ability of the subconscious mind with both logical and creative sides of the brain.


A healthy brain think better and perform better like well oiled engine. Like we need exersises to keep healthy, the brain also need exersizes.


1. Solve Puzzles and Play Games
Trying to solve a difficult puzzel makes your brain active. Playing computer games for few minutes a day help boost brain’s ability to focus.


2. Eat Brain Food
Some food items help in improve brain power.


3. Meditate
Meditation help develop a better memory a better brain.


4. Positive Imaginations
Think possitive and fill your brain with positive thoughts that would have a good effect on you.


5. Sleep and Wake up Routine
Develop a routine of sleeping. Sleep sound, wake up fresh. Give your brain a rest.


When you are in a good mental condition. When you think of yourself as better, your brain will perform better. How you look at things (perspective) influences your brain performance. If you don't think that you are good enough to do something, your brain also will act same way.


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1. Avoid a big breakfast and big meals which slow you down, and make you feel sleepy.
2. Eat raw fruits and veggies and their juices.
3. Eat fatty fish such as salmon, tuna and sardines.
4. Avoid excessive alcohol that is potential to destroy brain cells.
5. Minimize your sugar consumption.
6. Supplement yourself with multivitamins and antioxidants
7. Eat carbohydrates at night which will help relax your mind before going to sleep.
8. Make sure to supply your body with multi-minerals as calcium and magnesium.
9. Follow an exercise routine which help your blood circulation, stress and performance.
10. Drinking coffee in moderation helps boost brain function and elevates your mood.
11. Green tea is one of the best beverages to boost mental power.
12. Chocolate, YES!
13. Eat blueberries
14. Avoid anger. Be happy.
15. Love in your heart makes your mind blossom.
16. Make sure you sleep enough.


Your hopes and expectations


Your hopes and expectations play a major role in your life as a gardian angle. Your hopes help you motivate and make you feel that something is possible. You think that it's within your reach if you just work hard enough.


Experiential Learning
Progress is progress wheather it's small or big. Learn to appreciate your small achivements. A hundred storied building is build brick by brick. Experiment

1.3 How Creative people work out problems ?

Creative people see problems as natural occurrences in normal life.


Their creative ideas are driven by several abilities and skills.




1. They are curios
When you find a situation or a problem that you have not experienced before Learn to ask
‘why ...?’
‘what if ... ?’
‘I wonder…?’


2. Problems as interesting


Problems makes us find solutions that improve our life


3. Confront the Challenge
Many people have find creative solutions by facing a challenge rather than running away from it
Start asking your self, ‘how can I overcome this’?
Start asking other people, ‘how can I overcome this’?


4. Be Constructive
Creative people have a motivation to something constructive.


5. Have Optimism
Creative people belive that problems can be solved.


6. Hold your Judgment
Creative people takes time to judge something. Critising an idea is the starting point of creativity as great ideas usually starts as crazy ones. With constructive critisism the idea evolves and refined to be something worthwhile of persuing.


7. Barriers are opportunities to improve
Problems and mistakes are inherrent in creativity. Creativity is a journey to finding something new, in known and unknown domains.


8. Be Perseverance
Creative people with ideas believe in them.  It is commitment, hard work, patience, endurance make them create something new. Once started they have the ability to see them through. They don't give up when things go wrong or difficult. Creative people stick to their idea to make it happen.


9. Be Flexible in imagination
Creative people are flexible in thinking, they listen to others and consider different view points. They have a special ability to simultaneously imagine many potential solutions to a problem. Thinking in one line does not induce creativity as it's the way an average person may think. Creativity is like seeing many dreams at once.


10. Knowledge is raw Material


Your knowledge on something is your raw material to create a new idea. People with high degree of intelligence excel in creativity. However creativity requires a little mental looseness experts say. As such people tend to break rules and think outside box.


11. Start doing it
If you have a creative idea, don't just keep dreaming. Start doing it. A simple note on a paper, diagram or initiating a team discussion is a good start.  Many people have great ideas but only creative people make ideas a reality.


12. Make it Natural
Creativity is a natural process, in which everyone has creative abilities to some degree. Have you seen children imagine things faster than adults. For natural creativity you need to understand how the creative process works. Then it becomes a habit to be creative.




To be more creative ...

• Take risks
• Expect to make lots of mistakes
• Work hard
• Take frequent breaks
• Do what you love
• Creative breakthroughs take years of hard work
• Develop a network of colleagues
• Schedule time for freewheeling, unstructured discussions
• Forget the myth that creativity is gifted and not about hard work.
• Don't wait , get started 

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1.2 Understanding Conscious and Sub conscious mind

The conscious mind is responsible for logic and reasoning. This is the part which does math for you.
What is a value of 1 +1 ? Your consicous mind works and gives the answer.


Who control your actions like walking or running with an intention when you are conscious?
Conscious mind. The conscious mind is also the gate keeper of your beliefs. If something is wrong your conscious mind will tell you that.


The subconscious mind?
The subconscious mind is responsible for your involuntary actions like breathing.
Your emotions like fear and likings are controlled by your subconscious mind.
Your beliefs and memories are stored in subconsious mind.


How to use the conscious and the subconscious mind together
There is a simple exercise that you can do in order to perfectly understand the difference between the conscious and the unconscious mind.


Try this exersise.
Start breathing slowly for relaxation. Now your conscious mind is in charge.


Now let your breathing flow naturally. Your subconscious mind now takes over.




Previous Lesson : How creative mind works?

CINEMATOGRAPHY

CINEMATOGRAPHY – is AN ART
where a cinematographer captures the moments
and bring life to each frame of a cinema.
In abstract capturing action, images and lights

1.1 The creative mind - How it works ?

Creativity is a sudden moment of your insight that help develop an idea in a mental process from everyday thinking like you are finding a way around in a crowded city.


Lots of people generate creative ideas 3 Bs. Bus, Bed and Bath tub experts say.


Roger Sperry a noble prize winner in his reasearch found that left part of our brain works on logical thinking while right part of the brain works on creative thinking.


Left Side of Brain is logical, analytical and orderly.
Ex. An Accountant, Lawyer, Engineer, Doctor


Right Side of Brain is creative, free flowing, impulsive.
Ex.  Artist, Dancer, Engineer, Designer, Film Director


Best problem solving thinking process involves using both sides of the brain.
The right side of the brain is generating ideas for the left side to apply them.


Many creative people tend to solve problems as a result of sudden insights.


red, nut, bowl, loom, cup, basket, jelly, fresh, cocktail, candy, pie, baking, salad, tree, fly, fruit.
Look one word at a time and think of the one word that was associated with all of them.


Answer is Fruit, isn't it?




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