The Creative Toolkit: 6 Techniques to Spark Original Ideas
Esteban Gast
58:36
Description
If you want to come up with more original ideas, explore your creative process, and learn how to use tangible tools to expand your creative potential, this class is for you!
In this class, teacher, author, and comedian Esteban Gast breaks down the science of creativity and shares how the right systems and processes can create better ideas.
Esteban gets it, he’s sat at his desk and waited for good ideas to come to him. He’s been jealous of other people’s ideas wondering why the muse didn’t visit him. So, in this course, there is no muse musings. It’s focused on building a toolkit of creativity that you can use regardless of your creative medium whether it be visual art, writing, music, entrepreneurship and beyond.
The creative toolkit that you’ll learn includes following techniques:
- Juxtaposition
- Problem Tree
- Lotus Blossom
- Reframing
- Bad Questions
- Constraints
There’s no equipment necessary and no software required. Many of the tools are visual, so some drawing and journaling skills would be great but Esteban can only do stick figures, so you’re probably good.
Everything starts with an idea - this class will help you develop habits and processes to come up with unique ideas time and time again!
What You'll Learn?
- Entrepreneurship
- Lifestyle
- Creative Writing
- Ideation
- Creativity
- Other
- Brainstorming
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Esteban Gast
Instructor's CoursesEsteban Gast is an entertainer, educator, and entrepreneur.
He is Colombian, was raised in Puerto Rico and Illinois and currently lives in LA. He taught creativity and design thinking at the college level and co-authored a book on creativity while living in Central Illinois. Afterward, he worked as president of a sustainability-focused Institute in Panama. He was founding COO of Scriptd, a script database and story platform that elevates underrepresented creators. Most recently, he was the star of the TV show Jungletown, airing on VICELAND. He’s been profiled in WBEZ talking about using his liberal arts degree to teach engineers how to be creative. He was co-writer of a feature film executive produced by Emmy nominated Kari Skolgand and 13 Reasons Why writer Nic Scheff that you can read about here.
He's was the writer and host for two SoulPancake series: "Third Culture Conversations" and "Nothing Is Boring." He's also the host of Hyundai Highways, a road trip series where he took an electric car to national parks all over the west coast.
He's the co-director of the Climate Comedy Cohort, a fellowship program that works with professional comedians and connects them to experts and scientists to create comedy around the climate crisis. For his work, he was named a Grist50 Fixer, written about in the Guardian, interviewed on NPR's Science Friday and featured on ABC Nightline.
With his background in comedy and his years in the classroom, Esteban is a gifted communicator who loves breaking down complex issues. He has spoken at high schools, colleges, corporations, and conferences all over the world about the power of entertainment, the importance of diverse storytelling, and taking a data-driven approach to inclusion.
SkillShare
View courses SkillShare- language english
- Training sessions 9
- duration 58:36
- Release Date 2024/03/08
