16 Generative Exercises to Spark Original Thinking, Unleash Your Creativity, and Get Inspired

Fahri Karakas
ILLUMINATION
Published in
23 min readOct 15, 2022

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In this series, you will go on 16 creative challenges. Think of each challenge as a flight of imagination. Each challenge prompts you to create 15 ideas at a time. The goal of these challenges is to help you expand your imagination and exercise your muscles of creativity in about half an hour.

You will benefit a lot from exercising your creative muscles on a daily basis. If you do each challenge every day, you will strengthen your creative muscles 15 times a day. You will give your brain 15 generative exercises every day. If you make this a habit, the process will help you rewire your brain to be more open to creativity. At the end of these 16 days, you will emerge from this process mentally stronger and more creative.

You will engage in a diverse set of challenges including storytelling, brainstorming, screenwriting, inventing, branding, advertising, innovating, doodling, creating art, songwriting, cooking, designing clothes, and dancing. Below are the 16 challenges:

  • Create 15 stories using these creative prompts as first sentences
  • Invent 15 things using A4 paper
  • Turn 15 of your life experiences into movie scenes
  • Imagine 15 ways of creating value and…

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Fahri Karakas
ILLUMINATION

Associate Professor in Business & Leadership at University of East Anglia. Passionate about doodling, imagination, and creativity. Author of Self-Making Studio.