Michigan State University
How to Jumpstart Your Hidden Creative Genius
Michigan State University

How to Jumpstart Your Hidden Creative Genius

Taught in English

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

Karl Gude

Instructor: Karl Gude

Beginner level
No prior experience required
9 hours to complete
3 weeks at 3 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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There are 5 modules in this course

This week we’ll look at what creativity is and isn’t and I’ll explain how several creativity-related terms like ‘imagination’, ‘innovation’ and ‘incubation’. Creativity isn’t something that only applies to artistic endeavors. When businesses are looking for help coming up with creative solutions to their complex challenges, I don’t think they’re searching for oil painters! I’ll explain how we all had, then lost, all or most of our creative ability. Your best creative self is in you, it’s just buried and needs to come out. (Note: TW = trigger warning)

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14 videos1 discussion prompt

This week I'll share things you can do to release and reclaim your buried creativity and get back to doing and thinking things the sorts of creative things you used to do intuitively when you were a kid, but now shy away from. I'll also touch on the beliefs and assumptions you we all make about ourselves that restrict our potential.

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6 videos2 readings1 discussion prompt

Here I'll compare a creative and non-creative business culture and explain how you work can crush innovation. Organizations and individuals who adopt a creative, entrepreneurial mindset [aka, an innovative mindset] are much more likely to come up with truly great ideas and workable solutions.

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2 videos

Learn about problem-solving methods for tackling complex challenges, ones that seem to have no solution. There are many such methods, and we’ll be focusing on one of the more popular ones in the workplace, Design Thinking, which is a step-by-step problem-solving framework that is based on human centered design, a mindset that involves empathizing with the end-user, the people affected by your solution, to ensure it works for them.

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13 videos2 readings1 peer review

I’ll teach you some tried and true brainstorming techniques for coming up with great ideas as well as how brainstorming in groupsworks, and doesn’t. I’ll also touch on a few techniques for organizing and prioritizing all those crazy ideas you came up with!

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12 videos2 readings1 quiz1 peer review

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Karl Gude
Michigan State University
2 Courses161,220 learners

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