Day#1
Dear Diary,
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The good student that I’ve been, I missed the initial two classes of the year, because of which I missed a group activity. Got grouped with a bunch of people whom I’ve been trying to put off, but it’s a good learning curve I guess. Anyways, in my first class, we were each asked to write 10 chits; one with our names, any place, any animal, any product, an art movement/art style/ time period/ style etc., a character/celebrity.
After a billion hours of writing those chits, we each had to pick anywhere between 4–6 chits (a place, animal, product, art movement and character). All of us were laughing our heads off as people picked out bizarre combinations of these categories. For example, somebody got New York and Chotta Bheem if I recall correctly! Even Tisha, got Kashmir, Allu Arjun and Doodling as her chits! Hilarious, is it? Wait till you hear mine; North Korea, Captain America, Polar Bear, the Renaissance and a Cooler.
I was bamboozled when I saw this combo, but didn’t give my brain the space to overthink and whine over it; whatever it is, so it is! Anyways we are supposed to brainstorm ideas and come up with keywords around each of these things/concepts, which is attached at the top. Medium hasn’t uploaded it in the way I wanted it to get uploaded, but I actually started with Captain America, where you can see how little I could derive. Then I moved onto to North Korea where I had to use the internet (because it is abosolutely alien to me), therefore the obvious overload of words. That was followed by polar bear, where you can see an increase from Captain America, then Renaissance (which has most words which were not derived from the internet) and lastly cooler (which is just a boring word, hence all the empty space).
But you would’ve observed how as I did more, the better I got at it. This proves not only that practice makes all (not just men) perfect, but also that creativity can be percieved as a skill which can be honed with practice. Leaving you on that note today. Until next time.
Yours Ever,
Aditya
