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i learned from this activity that you don't have to look at things from the same perspectives .. You have to look at them from different angles and perspectives to have the ability to be Creative

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This activity taught me :-
1-The design thinking process
2- how to think from different perspectives
3= Solve a problem in a creative way ( find a creative solution )

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Critical thinking is having the ability to :
1- Think in different perspectives and different angles
2-  think about the issue or the problem in an objective and critical way
3-Recognize any weaknesses or negative points that there are in the evidence

---> Critical thinking = Problem solving

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I had mixed feelings while i was writing this Reflection : II had the feeling of sadness , because this course has come to an end ... But on the time i was so happy and proud of all the things that i have learned through this course ...It was really a great experience <3 Thank you Dr Rasha for Everything !

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i find that this a very creative way to represent myself and my CV because this is a short video that shows my CV and my communication skills in a very creative and interested way

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My dream job ( beside being an actress )  is to be a Psychologist .
i wish i can work in Ahmed Okasha's hospital as a psychologist as i really love him so much and he inspires me alot ..

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AUC's Spring 2012 Undergraduate Commencement Speech | Dr. Ahmed Okasha

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1- Everyone is creative in his own way
2- You can always improve yourself/your skills no matter what
3-Creativity is needed in everything
4- Avoid the Red hammer
5- Self discovery
6- Quality not quantity
7-the sky is your limit
8-you have to Market yourself ( be your own marketer )
9- Team Work !
10- Punctuality
11 - think from different angles ( Outside of the box )

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i wrote this assignment at the beginning of the course .. i wrote that i have a fix mindset and that i don't have the ability to improve my self But now i can admit that my beliefs and my thoughts changed ! I am proud of my growth mindset and i believe that i have the ability to improve my self no matter what

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Don’t look back on your life and wish it was different. There are always choices you could have made that you regret. But it all brought you to where you are now ❤️"One door closes, another one opens." I like that saying. When life knocks you down, get back up and keep going towards your goal Because Sometimes when what happens seems to be the absolutely the worse thing...it leads to the best ever possible.

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Lisa Kudrow - Find Your Reason Motivational Speech | Vassar Commencement

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1 )You Career Objective
2) Contact details ( your name , Home Addressee , your Phone number , your email )
3) Education
4) Experiences
5) Academic service
6) Skills ( talents , specific Skills , Languages , ...)
7) Awards , Honors , ..
8) References

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The moon landing activity shows the importance of choosing your Principal Priorities .
-How to choose your priorities ?? :-

1. Collect a list of all your tasks. ...

2. Identify urgent vs. important. ...

3. Assess value. ...

4. Order them  ...

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There is nothing to prevent someone from being very SUCCESSFUL ..The limit of success is high and wide as the sky

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here is a label that represents some facts in my personality and my identity

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This a thriller /psychological horror film that discusses a very dangerous mental illness which is Identity disorder . ( a story of a man who has 23 personalities )

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Split Official Trailer 1 (2017) - M. Night Shyamalan Movie

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- Highlight your Skills
- be a very  sociable person and build a community/ relationships  in the filed you want to work in
- Be different and unique !
- Use social media to help you to brand/market yourself
- always work to improve yourself so you can have a great CV that nobody can refuse
- Work on your communication skills
- Elevator pitch

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PSYCHOLOGY REQUIREMENTS ( to work in the field of psychology )

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PSYCHOLOGY REQUIREMENTS ( to work in the field of psychology )

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-GPA at least 3.5
-Smart
- Friendly
- Emotionally stable
-Good listener
-Communication skills
-Motivational person
-Psychology Skills : Ex. can understand body language  and people behaviors
- Problem solver
-Passionate about -Psychology ( itself )
-Good in doing researches

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The employer perspective  ( what is the employer looking in a fresh graduate ? )

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The employer perspective  ( what is the employer looking in a fresh graduate ? )

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Confidence
skills
attitude
time management
work under pressure
capability
experiences
dedication
= A GOOD CV

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Self discovery : How can i discover myself ? 

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Self discovery : How can i discover myself ? 

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- Explore the world ! As much as u can
- Think about what YOU want ( not what people around you want )
- Do lots of activities and assessments that can help you to discover your self
-  Read  ! reading can help you to Find yourself
- Search your happiness and your inner peace
- be a sociable person and communicate with different types of people
- Try new things and take risks !

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This is one of the most important assignment that i have written .. i wrote it after making lots of activities and assessment that helped me to know more about my self .. this assignment shows my personality , my skills , my interests and where do i want to go

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Who am I , and where do i want to go shahd samy.docx

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being aware of your self knowledge is very important because it leads you to know how you are and where do you wanna go

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there are many  things that helps to reform and shape an identity .. Like :- NAME
PERSONALITY
GENDER
AGE
APPERANCE
BELIEFS/ RELIGION
ETHICS
PRINCIPLES
NATIONALITY
LANGUAGE
TRADITIONS
CULTURE
FAMILY
FRIENDS
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCES
FEARS
DREAMS / AMBITIONS
INTERSTS
SKILLS AND TALENTS
ACHIVEMENTS
IQ
PROFESSION

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Methods that may help you  to be creative in your design thinking projects 

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Methods that may help you  to be creative in your design thinking projects 

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1) Brainstorming
2)  Making a plan ( mind map / concept map )
3) Team work
4) Making a persona
5) AEIOU
6) insight cards
7) How might I , How might we ?
8) Journey map
9) Stakeholder Map

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the relation between creativity and empathy 

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the relation between creativity and empathy 

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Empathy is very needed in creativity . It helps to see the different perceptive of a user .

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Not all creative insights are useful.

For instance, if you decided to design a four-story car with one wheel, no one would deny that the invention is creative, but it's not likely to be hailed as the next big thing in transportation.

Creativity needs to be informed by real perspectives and grounded in a real-world context. If you want to change the way people drive, you need to fully understand how they drive now, what they find challenging, and why they drive in the first place.

Ultimately, good design means creating something that people actually want to use. It's really quite simple in theory: If you consider the unique pain points and experiences of those around you, you're better able to devise creative, applicable solutions to their problems. The big challenge lies in stepping outside of your own calcified biases to adopt a more empathic perspective.

Applied Empathy

At Sub Rosa, a Manhattan-based strategy and design studio, enabling employees to escape their biases and develop a more empathic form of reasoning is vital to the agency's core philosophy and daily practice. Not only have they launched a successful podcast on the topic, they've also made empathy an integral part of their office's culture.

Michael Ventura, Sub Rosa's founder and CEO, recognized a deficit in the way empathy was discussed and practiced in agency culture.

"So many of the articles that we read and see out in the world are very theoretical when they talk about empathy," Ventura said. "It sounds very squishy. It sounds very loose, sometimes a little hippy-dippy. We really wanted to think about how empathy can be practically applied, and what is the process that would take."

Born from Ventura's desire to make empathy a tangible business practice and cultural cornerstone at Sub Rosa, applied empathy is essentially a method of detatching from your personal biases and tuning into the greater context of a situation.

"It's fun to have the 'wouldn't it be cool if,' type conversations," Ventura said, "[But] you can't blue sky something if you don't have a perspective. Empathy is a great way of allowing creative problems to be solved with a grounding in the reality that they need to be deployed within."

An Empathic Framework for Creative Projects

While it may seem easy to dismiss applied empathy as another marketing buzzword, Sub Rosa's commitment to empathy is backed up by an impressive portfolio. The agency has worked on high-profile projects for Pantone, Pepsi, and HP, among others.

Ventura credits their sustained success with a strategic framework developed to objectively employ empathic reasoning on their clients' projects. Centered around asking the right questions prior to writing the initial brief, the three-pronged process aims to help the agency develop a deep understanding of what a client wants to solve for or accomplish.

"The way we look at problem solving is really across these three buckets -- company, consumer, and context," Ventura said.

1) Consider the Company's Structure and Culture

To begin to understand where their client is coming from, Ventura and his team ask questions that reveal a client's cultural challenges and potential structural hurdles in their business model. Is their culture set up to support their objectives? What are their current strengths and weaknesses? Do they have the right team in place?

The goal here, Ventura explained, is "getting out of our own perceptions and getting into [the client's] vantage -- really understanding from the client side: what do they have that's going to help achieve this and where their deficiencies exist."

When examining a client's internal environment, Ventura stresses that it's also important to excavate their indigeny -- their history, underlying values, and central identity. Understanding what's indigenous to the client and their organization is crucial for crafting authentic work that accurately reflects the business. If the client's company isn't actually the most innovative product in the world, don't make a campaign that claims they are.

2) Consider the Consumer's Perspective

Next, Ventura's team turns their attention toward the client's target consumers, delving into their perspective to gain a deeper understanding of their interests, desires, and challenges.

What do the client's customers or consumers care about? What kind of content do they read? Where do they go out for fun?

"Whatever it might be," Ventura said, his team is focused on "getting ourselves empathically into the eyes and the minds and the hearts of the consumer, and looking outward from them to see the rest of the problem."

3) Consider the Greater Context

According to Ventura, it's not enough to simply make something that people want to buy. "You can have a business that has a good product and a customer who wants to buy it, but if they ignore the context, they're missing a very important third leg of the stool," he said.

To underscore the importance of grounding your work in a real-world context, Ventura likes to use the now-defunct SUV company Hummer as an example.

Back in 2008, Hummers were one of the most popular cars on the road. "There was a company who thought that big, aggressive, gas-guzzling vehicles were something to make and something someone would want," Ventura said. "Low and behold, they were right. There were a certain group of people who thought that car was great."

Despite their initially enthusiastic niche, Hummer's business plan had a major flaw: They ignored the rising eco-consciousness of the world and the impending gas and financial crises.

"Unfortunately, Hummer goes out of business," Ventura said. "Because while they had a willing audience to buy and a product that was interesting to that audience, they ignored the critical third leg of the stool, which is the context that they're operating within."

Recognizing Empathic Deficits

Cultivating an empathic practice isn't always natural or easy, but the first step is beginning to recognize specific empathic strengths and deficits in yourself.

To communicate these challenges more effectively and concretely, Sub Rosa's team has developed a series of empathic archetypes that characterize individual components of empathy.

"For some people, they're an optimistic problem solver," Ventura said. "For some people, they're better at looking for the chinks in the armor. There's a million scenarios in between. What we set out to do was understand a set of archetypes that one would need to embody in order to be comprehensively empathic."

What they ended up with was a set of seven empathic archetypes:

Sage: Be present -- inhabit the here and now.

Inquisitor: Question -- interrogate assumed truths.

Convener: Host -- creatively anticipate the needs of others.

Confidant: Listen -- summon the patience to observe and absorb information.

Cultivator: Commit -- purposefully nurture and actively develop.

Explorer: Dare -- be confident and unafraid to take risks or pivot.

Alchemist: Experiment -- constantly test and try.

"The development of those archetypes was a way for us to almost create a scenario where we can play outside of our own biases or proclivities and actually work through problem solving with a different hat on," Ventura said. "That type of process has allowed our organization to really learn a lot about ourselves as individuals who work and solve problems because we can understand where we most often land in those archetypes."

As a starting point to figuring out which archetype you default to, ask yourself: Which of these archetypes am I more naturally inclined to? Which ones feel less natural?

Ventura explained there is immense value in knowing where you currently stand: "If someone was very inclined to be an explorer -- which is about being daring, being confident, unafraid to take risks -- and they are not very naturally inclined to be a sage -- which is about really listening before speaking, absorbing information -- one might actually force himself into the sage archetype more regularly so that they can have a bit more empathy for a problem from all sides."

Discussing empathy isn't always easy -- particularly with your colleagues -- but these archetypes provide a straightforward and common language for talking about the usually abstract topic.

"We all speak the same language," Ventura said. "Everyone at Sub Rosa knows these archetypes and has an understanding of how they play a role in problem solving. If I say to my colleagues, 'I'm never really good at the explorer in these types of situations. Can someone help me work through that?', we've now created a shorthand for the deficit. We now have this muscle memory and this shorthand that allows us to solve problems collaboratively by being self-aware."
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Why Empathy Is the Key to Being More Creative

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Not all creative insights are useful. For instance, if you decided to design a four-story car with one wheel, no one would deny that the invention is creative, but it's not likely to be hailed as the next big thing in transportation. Creativity needs to be informed by real perspectives and grounded in a real-world context.

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1) Empathize : Understand people and their needs
2) Define : define what you are going to do by focusing on your point of view
3) Ideate : you ideate the problem and try to solve it
4) Prototype : you prototype your solution to make it clear
5) Test : you test it by having feedback from the users

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Since i was a child i always believe in law of attraction which is the fact that you attract to your life whatever you give your attention , energy , focus m thoughts to .. Whether its positive or negative ...  That made me believe that what ever i dream of  i can have it and attract it to my life .
Think Positive and positive things will happen ;)

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10 possible ways that may help you to improve your self 

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10 possible ways that may help you to improve your self 

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1- Face your fears
2- Set your Goals
3-Believe in yourself
4- Overcome your fears and admit your mistakes
5- Improve your talents and your skills
6- Discover your self and be aware of your self-knowledge
7-test your emotional intelligence
8- Explore and learn new things
9- Organize and convert your time
10- get away of all your negative thoughts

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Remember that you always the ability to increase your skills and talents and to improve ..Improvement come with hard work , Experiences and exploring and learning new things .

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GROWTH AND FIXED MINDSET .. WHICH MIND DO YOU HAVE ?

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GROWTH AND FIXED MINDSET .. WHICH MIND DO YOU HAVE ?

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In a Fixed mindset people believe their qualities are fixed traits and that they cannot change. These people document their intelligence and talents rather than working to develop and improve them. They also believe that talent alone leads to success, and that effort is not required.
Growth mindset, people believe that their learning and intelligence can grow and increase with time and experience. When people believe they can get smarter, they realize that their effort has an effect on their success, so they put in extra time, leading to higher achievement.

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My motivational song <3 ( Favorite one )

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My motivational song <3 ( Favorite one )

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I had a dream so big and loud
I jumped so high I touched the clouds

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Best Day of My Life - American Authors (Lyrics)

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IF YOU CAN DREAM OF IT , YOU CAN DO IT

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People must learn how to over-come their fears .. You have to believe in you self and do not overthink  about anything except your goals... Always Remind your self that :
-We are all born creative
-Failure is a way to succeed  ( Failure is needed )
- Improving your skills  is your choice !

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Creativity is the fact of having the ability to  generate , recognize , imagine and come up with new ideas that may help to solve a problem and to innovate .

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Schools must empowers student's creativity by giving them the chance to explore different subjects , do what they love and what they are forcedto do , discover their hidden talents , improve their talents and their skills and most of all : Encourage them to Innovate

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Definitely yes ! We are all naturally creative ..Creativity can be learn and taught and everyone should improve  his creativity skills .. the fact of  thinking that you are not creative ( even if your not ) will make you not creative
! .. You have to think positively of your skills , always look forward to improve yourself and your creativity skills .

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Your fears are yours and only yours ..
They are a battle that you need to be able to face on your own