Question #1 – Define Creativity (answer a minimum of 100 words for this question): Try to answer this question before you dive deeply into the assigned materials this week (but if not, no worries). Define creativity in your own words. What is creativity? How does it work? Are some people more creative than others, and if so, why? Can creativity be taught? How does creativity impact a person’s career? Question #2 – Stanford Design School Process (answer a minimum of 100 words for this question): This week I threw a lot of material at you. I wish I had an entire semester to spend with you learning and discussing nothing but creativity, but we only have one week. What I need you to do in this question is to synthesize pretty much everything you learned this week about creativity. Connect lots of dots into something meaningful. Apply YOUR definition of creativity to business, and more importantly, to entrepreneurship (specifically to new venture creation and new venture management? Question #3 – Design School Web Page (answer a minimum of 100 words for this question): Go to the Stanford Design School web page “Future of Stuff Challenge” (FSC) and review the process. Describe how this approach (developed entirely independently of Dr. Meeks’ experience, research, and formal education) is related to what we are covering in this course. Do you agree or disagree with the FSC approach (or any part of it); why or why not. How might you apply this FSC approach? I really want to know what you think about FSC – please share. Here is the link to the “Future of Stuff Challenge”: https://futureofstuffchallenge.org/page/getstarted.php Question #4 – Design School Summary (answer a minimum of 100 words for this question): Stanford’s Design School is believed by most to be the cutting edge in creativity. Take 20 minutes and review their website (link listed on Moodle under “Assigned Readings” this week). Try to absorb and understand their approach to creativity. Now write a summary of the Stanford Design School approach on creativity. Do you like or dislike it? Do you agree with their thinking? How might you apply this mindset in your current workplace, or to a new venture you are thinking of starting? https://dschool.stanford.edu Question #5 – Bootcamp Bootleg (answer a minimum of 100 words for this question): After reviewing Stanford’s “Bootcamp Bootleg” (the PDF available on the Stanford site, or downloadable on Moodle – listed under “Assigned Readings”). Write a VERY SHORT summary of the Bootcamp Bootleg, then critique it. Do you like or dislike it? Do you agree with their thinking? How might you apply this tool in your current workplace, or to a new venture you are thinking of starting? Question #6 – Apply Creativity Concepts (answer a minimum of 100 words for this question): Explain how you can apply the concepts studied this week (creativity) to your current job AND to your career
Some people may be naturally more creative than others; those individuals tend to have strong imaginations, open-mindedness, curiosity, adaptability, and self-confidence. However creativity can also be taught; by encouraging experimentation and exploring various perspectives through activities such as brainstorming or role playing one can increase their creativity levels over time.
In terms of career impacts, creativity is incredibly important; being able to think outside the box allows professionals to develop unique solutions to complex problems which makes them stand out from their peers in the workplace. Additionally, creativity helps businesses stand out from competitors by allowing them to bring innovative products/services into the market or come up with unorthodox marketing campaigns that get noticed by customers. All in all, having a high level of creativity presents many advantages both professionally and personally so it definitely pays off in the long run.
NAc get dopamine (DA) projections from the ventral tegmental region (VTA) (Björklund and Dunnett, 2007, Ikemoto, 2007, Spirits and Margolis, 2017) and this pathway assume a significant part in roused ways of behaving, support learning and prize handling (Hamid et al., 2016; Salamone and Correa, 2012; Schultz, 2016; Watabe-Uchida et al., 2017). Like whatever other cycle, there are negative input pathways to adjust the projections and forestall overexpression of DA. This emerge from different designs (Matsui et al., 2014) however late investigations show that NAc is the primary wellspring of this inhibitory info (GABAergic input) (Beier et al., 2015; Watabe-Uchida et al., 2012). There were not many clashing outcomes on this with studies proposing inputs from NAc to VTA to be disinhibiting (Bocklisch et al., 2013; Chuhma et al., 2011; Xia et al., 2011) and a new report tending to that NAc neurotransmitter onto VTA GABA as well as DA neurons through GABA-A receptor (GABAAR) and GABA-B receptor (GABABR) separately (Edward et al., 2017). This, notwithstanding, likewise projects an alternate outcome contrasted with the review done by Paladini in 1999 where inhibitory reactions from the striatum to DA neurons were obstructed by GABA-A main bad guy indicating pathway interceded by GABA-An all things being equal.
In this specific concentrate by Hongbin et al. in 2017, the shell part of the NAc is additionally partitioned into average shell (NAcMed) and sidelong shell (NAcLat). D1-MSN in the NAcMed is found restraining NAcMed-projecting DA neurons by means of GABAAR while NAcLat-projecting DA neurons through GABABR. D1-MSNs in the NAcLat, then again, projects onto VTA GABA to bring about disinhibition of NAcLat-projecting DA neurons (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Criticism Circles between Sub-locales of Core Accumbens and Dopamine Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Region (Hongbin et al., 2018)
This gives an obvious sign of explicit sub-locale and its job in restraint recommending that past disputable examinations might be because of nonappearance of sub-district particularity. VTA GABAAR actuation will make an expansion in DA transmission NAcLat because of disinhibition of NAcLat-projecting DA neurons as well as decline in projections to NAcMed because of direct concealment which concurs with Edward et al. (2017) where he expressed NAc restraint of VTA GABA and DA neurons by means of GABAAR and GABABR separately. Thusly, NAc assumes a significant part in evacuation of tonic restraint of DA neurons from VTA GABA which could then bring about enactment of the prizes pathway (Paladini and Roeper, 2014, Watabe-Uchida et al., 2017). Yet again further examination additionally shows projections from NAc shell to VTA to be backslide elevating while projections to sidelong nerve center to be termination advancing (Gibson et al., 2018) featuring the significance of this pathway in fixation and the chance of forestalling backslide in later medicines.
Inhibitory Job of Glycinergic Transmission in Core Accumbens
GABAergic transmission is well known as the really inhibitory transmission synapse particularly in the focal sensory system. That carries us to the significant job it plays in the remunerating pathway explicitly in the NAc. Ongoing review (Muñoz et al., 2018), notwithstanding, has tracked down presence of synaptic and non-synaptic glycinergic transmission in the NAc and is remembered to play an inhibitory part in the prizes framework because of its inhibitory job in other mind areas creating issues in tactile handling (Buckwalter et al., 199